Public event

I’ve spent the past 2 days talking to total of about 2000 people at the Science Museum in London, with Dr Haley Gomez (Cardiff University) and others. We were talking to people in the Antenna gallery whose sole purpose is to show people what is happening in science now. Not just things from the last 12 months, but really now.  read more »

Last week (April 23-26, 2009) we have had a traditional (9th) Science and Art Festival in our town Torun (Poland). Since the beginning it is connected with Nicholas Copernicus University and other institutions in our region, which during 4 days prepare more than 150 (this year almost 170) events covering around 40 science and art disciplines. It is very popular not only among our town’s inhabitants, some people come to visit our town during these days to have also an opportunity to see something interesting (total number of visitors of all the events is estimated to around 30 000).  read more »

The Faulkes Telescope project team and astronomers from the School of Physics and Astronomy at Cardiff University ran a highly successful “Observatory” at the 2008 National Eisteddfod. This year’s event was visited by around 156,000 people, and the Science Pavilion attracted around 2,000 people a day over the 8 days of the event.  read more »

To mark the start of National Science Week 2008 and the opening of a new exhibition in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, LCOGTLas Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network was asked to attend a space themed day, last Saturday.

Edward Gomez and Jon Yardley setup a stand with laptops for the general public to use to make colour images from archive Faulkes Telescope data (using Adobe Photoshop elements with the ESA, FITS liberator plugin) and explore solar system (using the free software Celestia).

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