School visits

The Society undertakes visits to local schools and clubs with the aim of raising the profile of astronomy amongst young people and hopefully enthusing them to become the astronomers or scientists of tomorrow!

Using the Faulkes Telescopes , which are based in Hawaii and Australia, pupils are given the opportunity to peer into the depths of space and to capture images of distant galaxies and nebulae.

These images were taken during some of our Faulkes sessions. The 'yellow' one of Messier 101 (M101) was taken at a public session we ran at Stranraer Museum, whilst the other of the crab nebula (M1), was taken at session we ran for pupils of St Ninnian's Primary School in Newton Stewart.

	Messier 101 is a spiral galaxy located 23 million light years from earth.
	Messier 1, also known as the crab nebula, is the remnant of a supernova located 6,300 light years from earth. It was first observed by Chinese astronomers in 1054 AD.