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.

Astronomical Observation at Escola Secundária de Loulé

On May 20th we made an astronomical observation at Escola Secundária de Loulé.
It was possible to see many constellations and to talk about the mythological stories about them before observing astronomical objects with the telescope.
Using the telescope we observed the Moon, Saturn (near to the constellation of Leo) and also some Deep Sky objects like M57 (the Ring Nebula in Lyra) or M13 (Hercules Cluster) and several double stars, namely the double system of Polaris.

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#

Sundial is now starting to be painted

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

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