The Virtual Telescope - Bellatrix Astronomical Observatory


	. At school with the Virtual Telescope The Virtual Telescope is happy to offer to students and teachers a chance to leave for a journey of discovery. The science of the Universe is able to join, as no other one, the pleasure of learning with the fashion, mystery and suggestion of its many phenomena: it is the perfect ground where languages, means and techniques from other disciplines can be seen at work. The images retrieved with the Virtual Telescope make it possible to change a lesson into a memorable discovery experience, sitting on the first line, introducing the magnificent show of the Cosmos. The Virtual Telescope can also be very useful to students involved in graduade studies. The staff are available to students and teachers activities, where requested projects can be designed to fit specified activities. The Universe has never been so close! Some of the possible topics, suitable for students of any age, are listed here: Using the Virtual Telescope; Astronomy for Teachers; Astronomical Image Processing; Using Astronomical Images in the Classrooms; Hazardous Asteroids; The Sun, our precious star; Comets: Icy Worlds in our Solar System; The Life of Stars; The Universe in Colours; Leaving the Milky Way: a Journey through the Cosmos. Those wishing to develop a true scientific project can pick one from the list below: Riding around the Sun: measuring the position of asteroids and comets, contributing to their orbital computation; Changing Suns: the fascinating world of variable stars; Foreign Worlds: discovering planets in other solar systems; See them Tumbling: Photometry of Asteroids; the staff is opened to any proposal. For children of primary and secondary age specialized teaching materials and resources have been created to fit in with Key Stage 1 - 4 and the wider UK curriculum and can be obtained through request! Fees: we offer the Virtual Telescope to schools at the special rate of 50 Euros for 5 hours or 100 Euros for 11 hours of live telescope time, providing full assistance to teachers! For bigger time slots, we can propose cheaper rates. We also offer a dedicated service to astronomy education, click here for more details. The staff provide full support for all these experiences. For details and questions, click here.

At school with the Virtual Telescope

The Virtual Telescope is happy to offer to students and teachers a chance to leave for a journey of discovery. The science of the Universe is able to join, as no other one, the pleasure of learning with the fashion, mystery and suggestion of its many phenomena: it is the perfect ground where languages, means and techniques from other disciplines can be seen at work.

The images retrieved with the Virtual Telescope make it possible to change a lesson into a memorable discovery experience, sitting on the first line, introducing the magnificent show of the Cosmos.

The Virtual Telescope can also be very useful to students involved in graduade studies.

The staff are available to students and teachers activities, where requested projects can be designed to fit specified activities. The Universe has never been so close!

Some of the possible topics, suitable for students of any age, are listed here:

Using the Virtual Telescope;
Astronomy for Teachers;
Astronomical Image Processing;
Using Astronomical Images in the Classrooms;
Hazardous Asteroids;
The Sun, our precious star;
Comets: Icy Worlds in our Solar System;
The Life of Stars;
The Universe in Colours;
Leaving the Milky Way: a Journey through the Cosmos.

Those wishing to develop a true scientific project can pick one from the list below:

Riding around the Sun: measuring the position of asteroids and comets, contributing to their orbital computation;
Changing Suns: the fascinating world of variable stars;
Foreign Worlds: discovering planets in other solar systems;
See them Tumbling: Photometry of Asteroids;
the staff is opened to any proposal.

For children of primary and secondary age specialized teaching materials and resources have been created to fit in with Key Stage 1 - 4 and the wider UK curriculum and can be obtained through request!

Fees: we offer the Virtual Telescope to schools at the special rate of 50 Euros for 5 hours or 100 Euros for 11 hours of live telescope time, providing full assistance to teachers! For bigger time slots, we can propose cheaper rates.

We also offer a dedicated service to astronomy education, click here for more details.

The staff provide full support for all these experiences. For details and questions, click here.