Telescopes to look at the Sun and the evening sky (weather permitting)
Location: South Cloisters and Front Quad
See also: http:www.ulo.ucl.ac.uk
and: http://www.phys.ucl.ac.uk/part-time/PTAstro/
There will be several portable telescopes out in the front yard of the college looking at the sun with special filters that will show any regions of high activity, like sun spots, large prominences and possible solar flares. Other telescopes will be used to find selected stars and other astronomical objects after dark, weather permitting.
Contact: Prof Ian Howarth
Using a special telescope to look at energetic storms in the solar atmosphere
The Sun seen in the light of hydrogen gas through one of our special solar telescopes
Drawing of Mars as seen in February, 2010
