News - 26th June

School lecture: CEB gave the talk 'Stars, planets and wormholes' to some 80 pupils in years 5 to 8 at Lambrook Haileybury School

25th June

School lecture: CEB gave the talk 'Stars, planets and wormholes' to a gathering of year 7 and 8 pupils at Ashfold School

24th June

Shell Solar Observing: 19 pupils in the Shell came up to the Dome for a double lesson of solar observing. The Solar goggles, ETX and Solarscope projection box showed unsuprisingly a blank disc. The 10 inch with its H alpha filter showed some prominence activity at the NW limb

22nd June

Astronomy Teachers Conference: A free one-day conference was run at St John's School, Marlborough, organised jointly with Marlborough College, St Mary's Calne and John Bentley's Calne. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell opened the day talking about the 'Pluto kerfuffle' and then CEB gave a talk on Astronomy in Schools covering mainly the new GCSE Astronomy Specification and the Extended project for astronomy in the sixth form. Workshops included Galaxy Zoo and Starlearner and a representative of Edexcel was on hand

20th June

Solstice Sky Tour: Some 12 Friends gathered at the dome late in the twilight evening to watch the Summer stars appear. Antares red and low in the South and bright orange Arturus high in SW. The far northerly setting point of the Sun was also noted. The Summer triangle appeared one at a time, but Northerly asterims of Cassiopeia and Plough were barely visible in the bright sky. No Notilucent clouds appeared

8th June

School lecture: CEB gave the talk 'Stars, planets and wormholes' to some 180 pupils in the top 3 years at Cothill House School

Good Schools Guide GCSE Awards 2009: Marlborough College has won an award from The Good Schools Guide 'for the best results at GCSE achieved by girls taking Astronomy at an English School'

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