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Visit to the Space center in Toulouse

2009-06-13T09:50:54Z

On Wednesday the 10th of June,�all the pupils and teachers who take part to the Phaeton project went to Toulouse to visit the Space City.

We had a guided tour of the Space City, then a workshop on the possibilies of life in the solar system.

In the afternoon, we went to the planetarium and we saw an amimation on�a 3D screen about man on the moon.

It was really a nice day to close all together our 2 years long project on astronomy.

Life on Mars - Part 5 : government and flag

2009-03-24T19:37:03Z

The Official flag of Mars will be yellow and brown. Yellow for the sky and brown for the earth. On the flag there are 2 arcs of circles� meaning ��under the bubble�� and � under earth��. As well as 3 diamonds for the number of big cities.

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The Official flag of Mars will br yellow and brown. Yellow for the sky and brown for the earth. On the flag there are 2 arcs of circles� meaning ��under the bubble�� and � under earth��. As well as 3 diamonds for the number of big cities.

Money will always be on bank card : MMC wich mean�� martien money card��. Inhabitants use it even for the little sum.

The universal language will be french. All plubic services will be in french.

On Mars, ther will be a president who will manage the whole planet. He will dictate laws would have created a council of about 20 persons. He will be elected for 5 years by the counsil, as well as 3 representants of each big cities, who will be elected by the inhabitants for 3 years. He will have laws executed, as well as the Declaration of the citizens rights.

A main law on Mars :

- Nobody will be allowed to get out of the bubble ( because of the lack of oxygen, except persons whose jobs oblige them to as the solar panel repairmen for instance. Peaple committing a mistake or harmful to life on Mars, would be expelled and sent back on earth. There will be no army on Mars, no weapons and no soldiers.

Religion will be only private. For religion as been responsible of many wars and troubles during centuries on Earth, any public religious practice and demonstration will be forbidden.

Manon P. Manon F. and Manon H.

A new sport to play on Mars : the Marsnis

2009-03-24T19:03:04Z

A new sport to play on Mars : the Marsket

2009-03-17T19:04:57Z

Life on Mars - Part 4 : food and clothes

2009-03-10T21:31:39Z

Concerning food, rotary machines will be installed under the solar panels to cultivate vegetables ans cereals.

Some exceptional round-trip will be done between Mars and the Earth.

Chikens are very workable because they don't take space and we can take a lot of them at each trip.

Chikens will eat the cereals (made in rotary machines) so we will have meat and egs.

Cities will be under the bubble, so temperature will be around 20�c. Inhabitants of Mars won't need many clothes. Raw materials will be natural, like cotton, and recycled, for example : plastic bottles. From these raw materials, wa could make other materials as nylon, jean, etc. To go outside people will have the same shoes, for exemple : nice boots.

In houses, they will have slippers or shoes, they will choose.

Life on Mars

2009-03-10T20:28:50Z

On Mars, means of transport like cars or motos won't be used. The people of Mars will use elevators wich move horizontally and vertically for move like we want.

The planet is separate in 3 parts, undergrounds will enable to join towns together.

For the good functioning of the planet we need energy :

�- Solar energy : solar panels will be installed on all the inhabited parts of the planet.

�- Wind power: there are sometimes tempest, so there is wind on Mars. We put wind machines on the inhabited part.

�-magma energy: We can use the heat of the magma to warm the water and sometimes to heat up the bubble.

Life on Mars - Part 2 : the organization of a Martian colony.

2009-03-10T19:23:33Z

Mars inhabitants will live in the underground covered whit a bubble through the sky could be seen. Mars will have big areas under bubble, connected between them by 3 subways (underground).

The cities will be built on vertically whit lifts to move vertically and whidth wise. There could only be few thousands people by areas.

Each house will be in its caves, heated by electricity and running water (and heat). Phones will be replaced by large pipes in which we will slip messages.

In each areas, there will be one factory for food , one for the textile in dustry ans one for the waste recycling and a funeral home.

The school� will be compulsory on Mars until the age of 25. Pulpils will have French lessons and Mathematics lessons in the morning ; and they will have the choice of the lessons for the afternoon according to the possible aptions : ( arts: sculpture, drawing, painting...sports : dancing, pe, football... experiments : physics, chemistry, sciences...).

Leisures: playing clubs (like marsnis and marsket). This clubs will be accessible to peoples whit different levels for a reasonable price. Contests will be organized between the 3 areas.

Medecine : In each areas, a great center of medicine will be sattled. The care will be free and the special for the old to rest will be free too. But, if a person is touched by a virus likely to harm the life of Mars inhabitants, he will be immediately sent back on Earth to be treated.

Town hall: the town hall will be located in the center of each areas. We could find some news about Mars or Earth...

We will be able to communicate whit the Earth. Employees will deal whit the papers of the inhabitants and of the newborns .

Life on Mars. Part 1 : conditions for a human life.

2009-02-17T18:21:15Z

Scientists suspect that years ago, life would have appeared on Mars surface. Indeed, fossils would have been found.

But today, Mars is a planet twice smaller tahn Earth, whit a diameter of ��6,794 km��. It's atmosphere is very thin. Like Earth, it turns on it self in a day. It has also four well defined seasons. Gravity is 3,72 m/s�.

We find on Mars just carbonic gas,� without any oxygen traces ( more than 95% Co�). The temperature is less than 50� F because of the greenhouse effect and because it's further than Earth from de sun. Its sky is yellow-brown.

There are a lot of wind whit storms and fog. Mars is a rocky planet where we can find extinct volcanos and mountains (like Mount Olympus height ��25km��) The irruptions of the last years dug caves underground. We can find-less than one meter of the ground water in the form of ice...

Like Earth, Mars has got two poles covered whit ice, which regress in summer and are reinforced in winter. But Mars, before all, is a desert planet : her surface, equal to all terrestrail continents, is only an immense expance of stand and rocks

The solar compass

2009-02-10T22:16:48Z

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1�) The solar compass consists of two different sundials on the same support :

* a horizontal sundial with a style directed to the celestial north pole ;

* an analemmatic sundial.

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2�) The support has to be horizontal and the vertical rod of the analemmatic sundial has to be in front of the right date.

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3�) We turn the compass so that the two sundials both indicate the same time.

One of the suitable orientations is north-south.

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4�) 16:40 on the horizontal sundial with the red style and 16:55 on the analemmatic sundial :

the orientation of the compass is wrong.

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5�) 15:25 on the horizontal sundial with the red style and 14:55 on the analemmatic sundial :

the orientation of the compass is wrong.

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6�)� Sheperd�s sundial ; it would also have been possible to make a solar compass with :

* a shepherd�s sundial indicating the solar time ;

* a horizontal sundial.

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7�)� Sheperd�s sundial (about 16:00)

Then, if the horizontal sundial indicates the same time as the shepherd�s sundial, that means its orientation is north-south.

Our stay in France

2008-10-31T16:13:04Z

On behalf of the staff, students and parents of Smith's Wood Sports College in the UK I would like to say thanks to everyone at College Gaucem Faidit for hosting us during the week of September 27 to October 1. We had a very lovely time and will cherish the moments we had there and also the friendships made. Thanks also to the mayoress for her warm welcome. We look forward to continue to work with you all as we now prepare for your visit to the UK in March.

Visit of the astrophysicist Sylvie Vauclair

2008-10-11T10:15:37Z

On Friday the 10th of October, we received in our school the astrophysicist Sylvie Vauclair. All the pupils of 8th and�9th grades attended her conference " In search of new worlds : les new planetary systems ", that was divided in 4 parts�:

1) the Earth in the space,

2) the new solar system,

3) the search for exoplanets (planets outside the solar system),

4) the notion of " livable planet ".

Then she answered questions from pupils who studied in the french lessons her book "The song of the sun".

After a meal in the school canteen, she visited different workshops realized by our pupils.

PARTIAL MOON ECLIPSE (August 16th 2008)

2008-08-18T22:12:12Z

The pictures have been taken by a Canon EOS 300D digital camera on a tripod, with a remote control and a

telephoto lens (focal length = 300 or 900).

Aperture = 5,6 ; ISO = 400.

The Moon entered the Earth shadow at 19 h 36 UT and was out of the shadow at 22 h 44 UT.

The maximum occurred at 21 h 10 UT.

(for legal time, add 2 h in France and Sweden, 1 h in United Kingdom).

I observed the phenomenon on a plateau, 30 km Eastward from Brive,

with the chairman of "Association Astronomique du Limousin".

Clouds did not allow us to see the eclipse before 21 h 15 UT.

After that, it was rather beautiful.

20 h 59 UT (exposure = 0,5 s ; focal length = 300).

11 min before the maximum.

There are some clouds in the sky around the Moon.

You can see a red colour on the non-enlightened part of the Moon

(the red part of the sunlight is deflected by the Earth atmosphere and the blue part is absorbed).

From the non-enlightened part of the Moon, you could see a total Sun eclipse,

with the Earth in front of the Sun.

21 h 09 UT (exposure = 0,4 s ; focal length = 900).

1 min before the maximum.

This picture can be used in order to estimate the true diameter of the Moon.

22 h 27 UT (exposure = 1/320 s ; focal length = 900).

17 min before the Moon is out of the shadow.

With this short exposure, we can see details on the enlightened part

but not on the non-enlightened one.

22 h 50 UT (exposure = 1/500 s ; focal length = 900).

The Moon is entirely out of the shadow.

But you can see a progressive half-light on the right-bottom part of the Moon.

From this area on the Moon, you could see a partial Sun eclipse.

The Moon was entirely out of the half light after 23 h 52 UT.

NB : these pictures are reduced for the blog.

If you wish the original pictures, you can ask me (360 kB to 550 kB for each picture).

Michel Wavresky (Uzerche).

michel.wavresky@wanadoo.fr

PARTIAL MOON ECLIPSE (Saturday, August 16th 2008)

2008-08-15T19:12:07Z

Don't forget !

Approximatly 19h36 UTC to 22h44 UTC ; in order to get legal time :

* add� 1 h in UK� (20h36 to 23h44) ;

* add� 2 h i Sverige and France (21h36 to 00h44).

Good evening - God kv�ll - Bonne soir�e.

MW (Uzerche, France).

SUN ECLIPSE (1st of August 2008)

2008-08-01T14:12:20Z

In Brive, where I am living, the observation of the partial Sun eclipse was a failure once more.

The reason was : too many clouds.

The Sun was visible for only a quarter of an hour, just before the beginning of the eclipse.

Did someone else succeed in this observation ?

MW (Coll�ge Gaucelm Faidit, 19140 Uzerche) , 1st of August 2008.

STAY IN SWEDEN (24th to 29th of May 2008)

2008-07-26T07:12:38Z

Firstly, we want to say thank you very much to Swedish teachers,

pupils and parents, for our nice and interesting stay in S�tilaskolan.

Below, you can read a report about our trip and our stay.

This stay was the second �mobility� of the Comenius project called �Phaeton�.

Michel Wavresky (Coll�ge Gaucelm Faidit, 19140 Uzerche) , 8th of July 2008.

Saturday, the 24th

We went by train from Limoges to Paris.

Then we had lunch in the �Jardin des Plantes� (great botanical gardens)

and visited the �Grande Galerie de l�Evolution�

(a museum with many stuffed animals).

Later, in the afternoon, we went to Paris Charles de Gaulle airport.

We arrived in G�teborg airport in the evening.

There, Erik O., Anette W. and all the Swedish hosts picked us up.

�Jardin des Plantes�

�Grande galerie de l�Evolution�

Sunday, the 25th

Each of us spent Sunday with his (her) host family.

The seaside.

Typical Swedish small houses.

Monday the 26th

Mr Sven S., the S�tilaskolan headmaster, and the Swedish teachers said

�welcome� to the English and French teachers and pupils.

Swedish pupils sang in order to say welcome too.

After that, English and French pupils followed their hosts into the

classrooms, while the Comenius teachers had a meeting before lunch.

Singing Swedish pupils

Margaret A., Nikki B. and Kate A.

You can also see the radio-telescope antenna on the roof of S�tilaskolan.

During the afternoon, English, Swedish and French pupils went near

the Lygnern lake and played a game with a tennis ball.

They had to hit and run.

Lygnern lake.

Game with ball (hit and run).

Tuesday the 27th

English pupils and teachers made a presentation of their job in Comenius club.

English presentation

Studious French pupils.

Then all pupils and teachers went to a walk along the lake :

it was called �Ramhulta extreme challenge�.

Pupils had to take up 5 challenges.

We also had to have lunch near Ramhulta water fall but,

because of a very dry weather, there was no water in the water fall.

1st challenge (on the beach)

2nd challenge (to cross a river)

Using the �Solarscope��.4th challenge (to throw balls in a box)

Beautiful landscape near the Lygnern lake.

5th challenge (to fill a bucket with the water of the lake).

Wednesday the 28th

French pupils and teachers made a presentation of their job.

Then Swedish pupils presented their sky maps.

During the afternoon, we visited G�teborg and

the Liseberg amusement park.

All the teachers had dinner in a restaurant.

French presentation.

Students after successful exam��.Bridge in Goteborg.

French pupils, Michel W., Anette W��.G�teborg coat of arms.

French teachers��Crazy merry-goround.

Thursday the 29th

Then we had to go back to France.

S�tilaskolan & Lygnern lake��.In G�teborg Landvetter Airport.

Last view on Sweden from the plane.

(Pictures from Cathy L., Michel W., Guillaume E.,

Jules T., Val�riane C., Eveline D.)