Plans for Faulkes Student Telescopes Continue
Jul 1, 2001 — The sponsors of a project to bring astronomy to schoolchildren via the Internet expect to begin construction of the first telescope in August or September, said James Heasley, a professor at the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy in Honolulu. The university, the Dill Faulkes Educational Trust, the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, the Royal Observatory, the University of Leicester and Liverpool John Moores University are funding the Faulkes Telescope Project,...