Activities

In this section you will find a set of Educational Units designed to help you get the most out of PETeR. The purpose of these Units is to introduce different concepts about Astronomy and Astrophysics (adaptable to various levels) while facilitating their understanding, to learn how to use a software for visualization and analysis of astronomical images, PeterSoft, and to allow students to experience the scientific method.

Each Unit consists of an Introduction, one or more Activities (each with its own Guide) and a set of images obtained with the Liverpool Telescope with which the proposed activities will be carried out.

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The first five Units are arranged in order from least to most difficult, introducing new utilities of the PeterSoft program at each step. These are:

Polaroid pictures in black

Unit 1. Inner and Outer planets

Unit 2. Distances I. Galaxies

Unit 3. Distances II. Quasars

Unit 4. Gas giants (Still only in Spanish)

Unit 5. Laws of planetary motion (Still only in Spanish)