Themed observing

On a themed observing day, the whole observing day (or night depending on your point of view) is dedicated to achieving a particular goal; for example observing a particular asteroid to plot a light curve, or imaging different parts of a large galaxy to make a mosaic.

The observing sessions are booked up by the FT Team and allocated to users who are interested in participating in the project. Users who are allocated sessions (given on a first come first served basis) are given educational material based around the project and are given certain co-ordinates to observe.

Users can then carry out activities with their class / group based around their own observations and at the end of the day, all the observations from other schools come together to form a large result.