Lamberhurst Primary school - Who left the lights on?

Mr Pert expected to be showing pupils at Lamberhurst Primary School how the Faulkes Telescope works. Faulkes Telescope North (FTN - Hawaii) was all booked up and ready to go, but apart from about half an hour this morning, the telescope was closed. Why? Because someone left the lights on!!

Can you believe it?!

Despite this, the pupils enjoyed an hour long session, learning the location of Hawaii compared to England, how peeling satsumas can help to describe how maps are made (unfortunately, the class teacher came back half way through this excercise, and not realising the orange peels were an integral part of the lesson, chucked them in the bin! :-) )

Then the Stellarium program was demonstrated. Though the telescope couldn't take the images that had been planned, it was possible for Mr Pert to show what they would have looked like using the archive images.