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Event ID:  83799
Contact Name:  Álvaro Folhas
Contact Email:  alvaro.folhas@gmail.com
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Event Web Site:  https://www.esmcastilho.pt/
Dates:  8th October 2024 to 10th October 2024
Physical Event:  Yes
Type:  Public
Start/End Type:  Starts During WSW
Country:  Portugal
State/Province:  Águeda
City:  Fermentelos
Address:  R. Bela Vista 59,
Location:  Fermentelos
Event Name:  Exploring the southern sky
Event Description:  We will use the 2 m aperture Faulkes Telescope South remote telescope, located in Siding Spring (Australia), in real time, to learn about celestial objects in the Southern Hemisphere. It will be a journey through space and time, accompanied by 7th grade students from Escola Básica Prof. Artur Nunes Vidal (Fermentelos)
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Report on the Results:  At 10:15 am on October 8th, Escola de Ensino Fundamental Prof. Artur Nunes Vidal took the reins of the Faulkes Telescope South telescope located at the Siding Spring Observatory, in Australia, and commanded it in real time and exclusively. For 30 minutes we oriented this powerful telescope from the LCO (Las Cumbras Observatory) telescope network, pointing it at different astronomical objects available in the sky of the Southern Hemisphere, it was 8:15 pm there and it had just fallen dusk. We thus traveled through the southern night, observing and photographing bright emission nebulae, distant galaxies whose light took millions of years to reach us, clusters of stars that formed skeins in our own galaxy.
Attendance:  200
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