Internet Astronomy in schools using remotely controlled telescopes

David McKinnon; Helen Geissinger

Internet Astronomy in schools using remotely controlled telescopes

David McKinnon, Helen Geissinger

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The Charles Sturt University Remote Telescope Project makes available to primary and high school students and their teachers a simple-to-use telescope and electronic cameras over the Internet. Access to the telescope is supported by curriculum units of Astronomy activities. The telescope is not a robotic device. It is controllable in real time with images transferred to the user also in real time. This paper describes the project, the software control system and the related curriculum activities, and results obtained from interventions conducted with teachers and students. Discussion centres around how to ignite students' and teachers' interest in science and how projects such as this one may lead to more exciting coverage of important topics in the primary and secondary schools.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	1st International conference on Information Technology and Applications, ICITA 2002
Editors	David Tien
Place of Publication	Bathurst, Australia
Publisher	Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers
Pages	1-5
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	1864671149
Publication status	Published - 2002
Event	International Conference on Information Technology and Applications - Bathurst, NSW, Australia Duration: 25 Nov 2002 → 29 Nov 2002

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Conference	International Conference on Information Technology and Applications
Country/Territory	Australia
Period	25/11/02 → 29/11/02

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McKinnon, D & Geissinger, H 2002, Internet Astronomy in schools using remotely controlled telescopes. in D Tien (ed.), 1st International conference on Information Technology and Applications, ICITA 2002. Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Bathurst, Australia, pp. 1-5, International Conference on Information Technology and Applications, Australia, 25/11/02.

Internet Astronomy in schools using remotely controlled telescopes. / McKinnon, David; Geissinger, Helen.

1st International conference on Information Technology and Applications, ICITA 2002. ed. / David Tien. Bathurst, Australia : Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, 2002. p. 1-5.

Research output: Book chapter/Published conference paper › Conference paper › peer-review

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