Astronomy Education for the Training of Future Galileo - Celestial and Space Observation Education, and Community Contribution -

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26350216
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Science education
• Research Institution: Tsuyama National College of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Sasai Yuji 津山工業高等専門学校, その他部局等, 教授 (40235239)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 天文 / 公開講座 / 測光解析

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We have held twelve sessions of open lectures entitled "Astronomical Observation Meeting - You are a Future Galileo, too! - " for elementary and junior high school students. These open lectures educated assistant students who operated telescopes. The students also worked on observation of eclipsing binaries and extrasolar planets. In December 2015, we renewaled the astronomical telescope system in the east astronomical observatory. This new system is equipped with an equatorial mount and a 35cm diameter ACF (Advanced Coma-Free) telescope. StarLock system of the equatorial mount makes target acquisition on an imaging sensor and accurate guiding during exposures completely automatic. We also made the photometric analysis of the eclipsing binary stars (HW Vir).

Free Research Field

天文教育、天文学