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.

Holly Hall School target asteroid Scheila for BBC Stargazing Live Event

As part of the BBC’s Stargazing Live event, FT users have been observing a list of interesting targets – here, Holly Hall School have taken a number of images of the asteroid Scheila. This animation shows the path of the asteroid across the sky ...
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Aging the Stars

Goleta Valley Jr. High School, USA Poster form Goleta Valley Junior High School by  Daniel Godinez Alcantara and Caylin Canales (13 yrs old) – 4th Place in Pysics & Astronomy division at California State Science Fair. A 493564 ...
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Astronaut Visit

Astor of Hever school, UK On the 2nd of July 2010 Astor of Hever Community School students welcomed Garrett Reisman, a mission specialist on the latest Space Shuttle Atlantis mission, STS -132. Students enjoyed a day of astronaut themed activities. Year 7 students designed and modelled tools for use whilst on a spacewalk. Designs included solar powered glue guns and ...
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Detecting The Dwarfs

College Le Monteil ASAM On Tuesday May 18th, pupils at College Le Monteil in France, together with their teacher Andre Debackere, used FTS to image two of the dwarf planets in our Solar System – Pluto and Ceres. The images of Pluto, taken with the R filter for 30s were then made into an animted gif, shown below. Pluto can ...
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Finding the Asteroid 2007 UR2 – Observations with Faulkes Telescope North

Armagh Observatory In January this year, 2 students from Victoria College, Belfast, worked with astronomers at the Armagh Observatory, and found a very exciting object! Read their report of their observations here… “The asteroid 2007 UR2 hadn’t been observed in over 2 years, which means that predicting its orbit would be particularly uncertain, making this asteroid quite difficult to find ...
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