Astrolab Distant Training Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/astrolab-distant-training/ Astronomy for a better world! Fri, 19 Dec 2025 10:15:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://astro4dev.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-03_OAD_symbol_colour_2-32x32.jpg Astrolab Distant Training Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/astrolab-distant-training/ 32 32 Astrolab – Starlight in the University Lab Project: Learning STEM skills by doing https://astro4dev.org/astrolab-starlight-in-the-university-lab-project-learning-stem-skills-by-doing/ Fri, 19 Dec 2025 10:13:23 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=30735 This article was originally published by the American Physical Society in the December 2025 issue of the African Physics Newsletter and is shared with the permission of APS. The AstroLab (Starlight in the University Lab) project is an annual training workshop tailored toward undergraduate students in introductory astronomy courses. It is an inquiry-based astronomy lab [...]

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]]> Overview: Astrolab Distant Training https://astro4dev.org/overview-astrolab-distant-training/ Tue, 05 Jan 2021 11:42:44 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=21981 To get students involved in science studies, lab activities are a necessity, but often scarce funding limits the capacity to implement it. In that context the enquiry-based lab Astrolab was developed. It is based on the analysis of astronomical images obtained with remote telescopes to introduce students to the scientific research method by working through [...]

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