Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Participants
- Welcome and Opening Address
- Astronomy Education: an International Perspective
- Special Lecture: Sundials in London – Linking architecture and astronomy
- 1 University Education
- 2 Distance Learning and Electronic Media in Teaching Astronomy
- 3 The Student Learning Process
- 4 Planetarium Education and Training
- 5 Public Education in Astronomy
- Public Education: the ultimatum for the profession
- The Role of Science Centres as Aids for Astronomical Education
- The STAR CENTRE at Sheffield Gallam University
- How to Succeed in convincing Municipalities to build Astronomy Centres: the experience of Campinas Region
- Public Information Project of the Total Solar Eclipse of November 3, 1994 in Paraná State, Brazil
- Solar Eclipses and Public Education
- The Role of Amateur Astronomers in Astronomy Education
- Astronomy to Understand a Human Environment
- Selling our Southern Skies: recent public astronomy developments at the Carter Observatory, New Zealand
- Astronomy Education in Latvia – problems and development
- Teaching Astronomy at Sydney Observatory
- Developing Science Education and Outreach Partnerships at Research Institutions
- Literature for Amateur Astronomers
- Desktop Space Exploration
- 6 Teaching Astronomy in the Schools
- Posters
- Final Address
- Authors
Desktop Space Exploration
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Participants
- Welcome and Opening Address
- Astronomy Education: an International Perspective
- Special Lecture: Sundials in London – Linking architecture and astronomy
- 1 University Education
- 2 Distance Learning and Electronic Media in Teaching Astronomy
- 3 The Student Learning Process
- 4 Planetarium Education and Training
- 5 Public Education in Astronomy
- Public Education: the ultimatum for the profession
- The Role of Science Centres as Aids for Astronomical Education
- The STAR CENTRE at Sheffield Gallam University
- How to Succeed in convincing Municipalities to build Astronomy Centres: the experience of Campinas Region
- Public Information Project of the Total Solar Eclipse of November 3, 1994 in Paraná State, Brazil
- Solar Eclipses and Public Education
- The Role of Amateur Astronomers in Astronomy Education
- Astronomy to Understand a Human Environment
- Selling our Southern Skies: recent public astronomy developments at the Carter Observatory, New Zealand
- Astronomy Education in Latvia – problems and development
- Teaching Astronomy at Sydney Observatory
- Developing Science Education and Outreach Partnerships at Research Institutions
- Literature for Amateur Astronomers
- Desktop Space Exploration
- 6 Teaching Astronomy in the Schools
- Posters
- Final Address
- Authors
Summary
The Humble Space Telescope project aims to launch a small space telescope for educational and recreational purposes, in time for the New Millennium.
The arrival of the 3rd Millennium, accompanied in the United Kingdom by a Millennium Commission distributing 250 million per year of National Lottery funds for good causes and imaginative projects which would otherwise require direct funding by the taxpayer, provides a unique opportunity to design, build and operate a small but capable version of the pioneering Hubble Space Telescope.
In July 1994, a leading British newspaper with a long history of covering developments in science, launched a competition for members of the public to propose science projects to be funded by the Millennium Commission. The idea of a small satellite telescope, fitted with a CCD detector package was submitted by Dr. Martin-Smith, and won a share of the top prize. Meanwhile, Rodney Buckland, a Trustee of the National Science Centre project, took up the idea as an ideal new field site for the Centre, and has become its Project Manager.
It is well established that specialised and initially-expensive technologies – for example Schmidt-Cassegrain optics, CCD cameras, computers and the Internet – began as the advanced tools of professionals, and in time become accessible to amateurs, educators, and the public, for learning and recreation.
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- New Trends in Astronomy Teaching , pp. 237 - 240Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998