Class 9 Play - an Italian Straw Hat

A comedy by Eugene-Marine Labiche & Marc-Micheal, Directed by Austin Castiglione

Performances will be held:

Cast 1 - 9am Thursday 6th March
Cast 2 - 6:30pm Thursday 6th March
Cast 2 - 10:40am Friday 7th March
Cast1- 6:30pm Friday 7th March

Class 11/12 Astronomy: Astrophotography 101

Students in the Class 11/12 Astronomy elective have been visited by SPIRIT program coordinator Tim Young. During this time, the students have learnt how to use the robotic telescopes and created stunning images of objects from the night sky.

The SPIRIT program is part of the education and outreach done by the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), in WA. It has four fully robotic telescopes that are used for education and research. Stationed in Mardella, south of Perth, the observatory offers students the opportunity to have hands-on involvement with astronomy and learn about the science that can be done. You can see three of the telescopes in the image below, including the newest telescope, a 1m reflector.

Across the two weeks, students have planned what objects they want to image and used the online interface with the telescopes to schedule their observing. After taking the observations through a range of colour filters, they used software to turn the black-and-white images into stunning colour images.

Students will continue to work with the SPIRIT telescopes to continue taking better and more breathtaking images, then explore the science that can be conducted with the telescopes.

Brett Kranz-Little
Physics Teacher