Eveline took this picture with a compact Kodak c613 (6.1 Mp).
We hope that pupils from Sweden and England will also soon try to take pictures !

This is the winning logo. The students from all three schools came together one day to compete. They were to design a logo which would be the winning one to be used in the project for two years. The winning design came from Anna, a Swedish student. The teachers had a hard time deciding because there were many excellent pieces of artwork. Can you spot any element representing England, Sweden and France? And what is the name of our Comenius partnership?

QUESTIONNAIRE ABOUT ASTRONOMY  AND THE COMENIUS PROJECT

You might not now be familiar with some of what you are being asked but that is fine. It is not a  test. We will see how much you know now compared to how much you would have learnt at the end of the two years of being in the comenius project.  

1. What is the approximate distance between Earth and Sun ?  0%
   2.  What is approximately the distance between Earth and Moon ?    0% 
   3.  Approximately how old are Sun and the solar system ?        0%    
   4.  Give the names of the 8 planets of the solar system (from the closest to Sun to the farthest)            (NB : Pluto is not considered as a planet any longer) :            50%  
   5. What is the difference between a star and a planet ?   0%   
   6. Give the names of  3 stars :            36%    
   7. What is a light-year ?            4.5% 
   8.     What is a galaxy ?            9%  
   9.    What is the Milky Way ?            13.5%   
   10. What is a diffuse nebula ?            0%    
   11.   What is a globular cluster ?             0%       
   12.    What is a  constellation ?               13.5%      
   13.     Give the name of  3 constellations :                 18%    
   14. What is the ecliptic?  0%  15.        What is the zenith ?  0%           
   16.   What is the celestial North Pole?                  0%      
   17. Who was Phaeton in the Greek mythology?                  0%   
   18.   Who was Mercury in the Roman mythology?               0%  
   19. Give the name of an ancient Greek astronomer and write what he did for astronomy.                13.5%     
   20.  What Polish 16th century astronomer said that Earth turns around the Sun ?  0% 
   21.  What Italian astronomer looked at Jupiter with a refracting telescope in 1610 ? 0% 
   22.  What English 17th & 18th centuries astronomer stated universal gravitation law ?    18% 
   23.    Indicate a contribution of Albert Einstein (1879-1955) to astronomy.0%   
   24.  Who was the first man who walked on the Moon ? When did he do it?  95%   
   25.  What 20th century astronomer gave his name to a telescope put into orbit around the Earth ?    27%  
   26.    What French writer wrote « De la Terre à la Lune »  [« From Earth to Moon »]  in   1865 ?            0%       

On december 24th 2007, Mars was very close to the full Moon.
This picture has been taken with a Canon EOS 300D (1/160 s),
from Brive 19 (France).
On the picture, Mars is under the Moon :
the distance between Mars and the edge of the Moon is about 1/8 minute,
i.e. a quarter of the Moon diameter.
Michel Wavresky, december 24th 2007.