in the Celestial Sphere

• Home
• The Project
• Ambassadors
  • Stuart Johnson
  • Rory Graham
  • Giles Pratt
  • Richard Hilton
  • Anton Harder
  • Marcus Leuw
  • Michael King
  • Alex Doyle
  • Peter Meijer
  • Matthew Cross
  • Zlumkile James
  • Siyabonga Nelani
  • Yolanda Mbana
  • Lisebo Phelane
• African Diary
• Activities
  • Learning Science with SALT
  • Secrets of the Spectrum
  • Making the Solar System
  • Constellations - Our Cultural Heritage
• Educator Support
• Sponsors
  • RC 1851
  • Royal Astronomical Society
  • PPARC
  • European Space Agency
  • Learning Technologies Inc
  • Science Learning Centre
  • Neatherd High School
  • Geraldine Hogan - Coronado
• Partners
  • Dereham Sixth Form College
  • Cambridge University
  • South African Astronomical Observatory
  • University of the Western Cape
  • NASA ASAC
• School pages
• Funding

Secrets of the Spectrum

Science Ambassadors: Matthew, Alex, Peter and Michael

We helped learners to discover the solar spectrum using prisms, UV beads, spectrometers and Hydrogen Alpha filtered telescopes. North and South has two of these amazing telescopes to lend to SA schools.

 

Above, one of the Coronado PSTs donated for SA schools by Gerry Hogan, and below an image taken by UK students using a similar telescope.