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17th -23rd March 2007

MAJORCA    

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Tour:   Open University, SXR208, Observing the Universe, staying at Hotel Horizonte, Palma.         

Participants: 18

Weather:    Everything from some warm sunshine to very cool nights and a violent thunderstorm, accompanied by rain, hail and snow! .... "the worst weather we have had in six years of running these courses", according to one tutor!

  Course Projects:

Four projects from the following had to be selected for study in Majorca - my choices were 1,5,6 and 7.  The projects requiring telescope work were completed as far as possible, although some nights we had to repeatedly shut down the domes for rain, and other nights we even had to play a hairdrier on the telescope lenses to stop dew settling!!

    Project 1: Astronomical Specroscopy

    Project 2: Colour-Magnitude Diagrams of Star Clusters

    Project 3: Stellar Photometry

    Project 4: Eclipsing Binary Star

    Project 5: Asteroid Light Curves

    Project 6: Classification of Chondrite Meteorites

    Project 7: Planetary Landing Site Selection

A detailed report is to be prepared on one of them, and my selection is No.6, which has the closest link to geology.

   
  Hotel Horizonte, Palma, sink tops and stairs are all made of this beautiful polished granite.................
  ...............Ross of Mull granite?