Would your school students like to use one of the biggest telescopes in the world?!
The Gemini Observatory consists of a pair of identical telescopes, one in Chile and one in Hawai'i, and each one has a massive 8 meter diameter mirror! They are positioned on the planet so that the two telescopes can between them observe almost any part of the night sky. A quarter of the funding for Gemini is from the UK.
If your school would like to win the chance to remotely observe with Gemini, all you need to do is send an outline of what you would like to observe and why it is interesting (maximum 500 words) to ukgemini@astro.ox.ac.uk by the 16th of October, 2009! The competition is open to all students from UK schools and science clubs in years 11, 12 and 13.
For more details, please see the competition website.
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