The Faulkes Telescope Project is proud to support a large number of school astronomy projects, which use the Faulkes Telescopes and the guides and resources on our website to undertake projects of research-level quality in their classrooms. Below are a list of some of the school projects that the Faulkes Telescope Project have supported.

If your school has done a project that you would like showcased, we’d love to hear about it. Send an email with the details of your project to info@faulkes-telescope.com and you could be featured on our website.

Astronomy With Art

Pupils at Goddard Park Community Primary School in Swindon got stuck into World Space Week but incorporating astronomy into their art lessons! Inspired by some of the images taken by the Faulkes Telescopes, Year 3 pupils produced some beautiful chalk drawings of galaxies, nebulae and various other astronomical objects. Here is some of their work: By Sophie Bartlett ...
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Supernova Success From Portugal

We’ve had more success on this year’s favourite supernova so far, SN2016adj in Centaurus A. High School Adolfo Portela in Portugal have been observing the supernova and performing photometry measurements in their Astronomy Club. Here is what the students had to say about their experiences: “What we like the most in High School Adolfo Portela’s Astronomy Club, it is the ...
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Photometry From France

College le Monteil in France have had great success both observing and analysing data they obtained from the Faulkes Telescopes. Students took their own images of the recent supernova in Centaurus A and used these along with images taken by other users to perform photometry. From their results, they were able to plot a light curve in order to see ...
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An Investigation of the Open Cluster M25 by 10th Grade Students in Greece

-High School of Tihero, Greece- A photometric study of the open cluster M25 has been conducted by Mrs. Stella Tryfonidou and her class of 10th grade students. Their work is presented in both Greek and English and features a study of stars and stellar evolution. By using images from the LCOGT archive, they were able to use the free photometry ...
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Galaxies Projects with the Faulkes Telescopes

College C. Perceret, France In March this year, we reported on a school in France who had recently begun using the Faulkes Telescopes in their classroom. After attending an EU-HOU/GTTP Astronomy Training Workshop, their teacher, Hevre Faivre, introduced the students to the telescopes, and to a project on galaxies. To read about their project, and how they linked observations of galaxies ...
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