Astro Zone meets in S3 and/or E8 on Thursdays from 2.30pm during academic year 2005/6
Giant Soap Bubbles: June 8th 2006
0732-0739
Faulkes Telescope Free access for school to robotic telescopes!
Partial Solar Eclipse of March 29th 2006
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here for more pictures
Qinetiq balloon altitude record attempt
Making our own hot air balloon from Aluminised Mylar
Rocket factory cool stuff!
0711 0.5
litre Water Rocket at blast-off
Virtual Space Museum of Russian Cosmonautics
KidsAstronomy.com
Edge into Space: Win a trip
to America!
Sky Spy
Safari
Video clips we have made:
| Clip no, & still image |
Connection speed |
Description of video clip |
Curriculum link |
86.
 |
Select speed: Dial-up Broadband |
Compressed air-powered water rocket using a quarter-full 0.5 litre
bottle Filmed at 15 frames per second using a Nikon CoolPix 5400 (same launch as Clip 85). Launch acceleration is clearly much higher than the fuller bottle. |
Links: Y10 Physics, Forces and Motion |
85.
 |
Select speed: Dial-up Broadband |
Compressed air-powered water rocket using a quarter-full 0.5 litre
bottle Filmed at 30 frames per second using a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ5 (same flight as Clip 86).. Launch acceleration is clearly much higher than the fuller bottle. |
Links: Y10 Physics, Forces and Motion |
84.
 |
Select speed: Dial-up Broadband |
Compressed air-powered water rocket using a
three-quarters full 0.5 litre
bottle Filmed at 15 frames per second using a Nikon CoolPix 5400 (same launch as Clip 83) |
Links: Y10 Physics, Forces and Motion |
83.
 |
Select speed: Dial-up Broadband |
Compressed air-powered water rocket using a
three-quarters full 0.5 litre
bottle Filmed at 30 frames per second using a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ5 (same launch as Clip 84) |
Links: Y10 Physics, Forces and Motion |
68.
 |
Select speed: Dial-up Mid-band Broadband |
Bike-wheel gyroscope demonstrates a mind of its own! Spin an old bike wheel and what do you notice? Not a lot - until, that is, you try and move the wheel or hold it by just one of the attached stunt pegs. | Links: Astro Zone |
67.
 |
Select speed: Dial-up Mid-band Broadband |
Bike-wheel gyroscope acts just like a giant spinning top! Spin an old bike wheel and what do you notice? Not a lot - until, that is, you try and move the wheel or hold it by just one of the attached stunt pegs. | Links: Astro Zone |
66.
 |
Select speed: Dial-up Mid-band Broadband |
Bike-wheel gyroscope demonstrates a mind of its own! Spin an old bike wheel and what do you notice? Not a lot - until, that is, you try and move the wheel or hold it by just one of the attached stunt pegs. | Links: Astro Zone |
65.
 |
Select speed: Dial-up Mid-band Broadband |
Bike-wheel gyroscope demonstrates a mind of its own! Spin an old bike wheel and what do you notice? Not a lot - until, that is, you try and move the wheel or hold it by just one of the attached stunt pegs. | Links: Astro Zone |
Meetings (our meetings are now much less structured than this!!)
- Starter: a quick opening thought
- Website of the week Explained by a student. (2 to 5 minutes)
- Topic of the week. Initially introduced by Mr Lea-Wilson (10 minutes)
- Free surfing time, ending with sharing the best things we've found (15 minutes)
- Things to watch out for in the sky over the next week (eg from Sky and Telescope!)
- Good stuff on radio or TV over the next week
- Watch a video clip, eg Sky at Night, Space Race, Voyage to the
Planets
Games and interactive activities we like:
Lunar lander
at coolmath4kids
Rocket cadet game from eChalk a bit of fun!
Planet 10 launched from
solarsystem.org.uk
Planet 10 launched
from the Wired Science site
Astronomy Topics of interest in no particular order:
(for an archive of past meetings, click here)
10. Flying the water-powered rokit: comparing 0.5l, 1l, 2l and 3l versions
11.
Transits of the International Space Station
12. The Space Shuttle
13.
Meteor showers
14.
Planetary conjunctions: eg
http://sankeyscience.org/Y7/VenusJupiter.jpg
15.
Long-exposure photography using 'bulb' settings on cameras
16.
Sunday Times 'Window on the Universe' CDs
17.
APOD Astronomy Photo of the Day
18.
Fish-eye lenses for whole-sky coverage
19. Lunar eclipses and Phases of the Moon
http://www.rc-astro.com/composite/sun_moon.htm
Photographing the Moon using a digital camera:
20. God and the Scientists
21. The Big Bang
22. The End of the Universe!
23. Advice on choosing a digital camera
24. Making our own website:
http://www.schoolsobservatory.org.uk/club/yourwk/
25. Messier objects
26. Planetarium software such as
Celestia
27. Black Holes
28. Orreries
29. Dyson
Spheres
Digital photography topics we could tackle:
1.
Close-up photos using the Nikon 5400
2.
Time-lapse photos using the Nikon 5400
3.
Video clips of science experiments, especially those with a 'wow' factor
4.
An explanation of BMPs, JPEGs etc
