Galilean Nights Observation at Loulé

On the night of October 23rd at Escola Secundária de Loulé, the population can watch Jupiter and the Moon at Escola Secundária de Loulé. The observatio will start at 21h00.

This observation will be included on the International Astronomy Year 2009 (http://www.astronomy2009.org/).

The analematic sundial is finally finished

Today we have finished our sundial at Escola Secundária de Loulé. Students and teachers have tested it all day long and have concluded that it was well built up.

Astronomical Observation at Escola Secundária de S. Lourenço (Portalegre)

On the 28th of May Escola Secundária de Loulé's Astronomy group has promoted an astronomical observation at Escola Secundária de S. Lourenço in Portalegre.

National eTwinning Meeting at Batalha (May 9th)

Escola Secundária de Loulé's students built a sundial at Batalha during the National eTwinning Meeting.

Alexandre Costa, the teacher, did some planetarium sessions for students present with a portable Starlab planetarium.

Astronomical Observation at Ponte de Sor (May 5th, 2009)

Escola Secundária de Loulé's Astronomy club promoted an astronomical observation at Escola EB 2,3 João Pedro de Andrade, at Ponte de Sor, on May 5th, 2009. Ponte de Sor is North of Loulé and about 360 km away.

The Moon in the telescope

The observations were very nice and lots of people from school and local population were there.

Lots of people were at the observation

You can see some more pictures at

http://picasaweb.google.com/alexandrejcosta/ObservacaoPonteDeSor2009#

Astronomical Exhibition at Ponte de Sor

During the exchange work with students and teachers at Ponte de Sor there was an exhibition about celeestaila objects and also about constellations to be presented to the community.

Here are some images of the exhibition.

Pictures about celestial objects with explanations

Some posters about constellations

Some more posters about constellations

A zoom into one of the constellation posters

Sundial is now starting to be painted

Our students partially painted the analematic sundial this morning. The picture above is the present result.