National Eisteddfod in Wales, UK 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.
LCOGT at National Museum of Wales To mark the start of National Science Week 2008 and the opening of a new exhibition in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, LCOGT 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).
