Global Hands-On Universe Conference 2015. 4-5 August 2015, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Abstract: No abstract available.

1. Celebrating astronomical number 12Charlie moving by solar energy, belgium coast
Michel FAYE mfaye2@wanadoo.fr , Suzanne FAYE mme.faye@yahoo.fr
For motivated pupils and students, start from their own life , mix
methods and cultures, ask new questions, listen to their answers…

2. Once upon a time, in Mesopotamia (Irak) 12 phalanxes and the thumb
1 day = 2 x 12 hours
12 months
1 month
From 1 to 12 with one hand, from 12 to 60 ( 5 x 12) with the other hand

3. 3
About the European Flag
Christian Europe is fueled by the work of the ancient Mesopotamian astronomers
The blue color is the color of sky. The twelve golden stars come from the twelve lunar months per year,
then 12 apostles …
You can see the Virgo with her 12 stars crown on painting inside old european churches , such as
church of the benediktin monastery of Ettal (Bavaria, Germany).
Flags and Astronomy
How are number 12, solstice, and other sky objects all around the world?

6. A solarscope
Sunspots
Venus transit
Shadows and light
A small Galilean telescope
Lenses
Magnifications
PARIS
HAITI
PARISHAITI

7. June 21th: Celebrating Solstice Day / French Music Day/ Chilean Mapuche We Tripantu / Bolivian
AymaraWillka Kuti
Willka Kuti – 5523 = Aymara New Year
Receiving Cosmic Energy from Sun Temple, Bolivia
June 21st: Music celebration in France

10. France 2004 – Australian
2012
Venus transits, a french australian program
that lasted 8 years

11. LLG a eu les honneurs de la télévision australienneVenus transits, twice
a century
6 juin 1761
3 juin 1769
9 décembre 1874
6 décembre 1882
Paris 2004 / 8th of
June
Australia 2012 / 6th
of June
11 décembre 2117
8 décembre 2125
Observing Venus, aligned between Sun and Earth

12. Les transits de Vénus de 1761 et 1769 ont
permis la détermination de l’unité
astronomique, distance Terre-Soleil
1 u.a ≈ 150 millions de km

13. Toute la France!
French High schools: 160 000 students every year learn about
exoplanets
Have exam « baccalauréat » about , use SalsaJ.

14. Suzanne Faye, groupe Hands-On-Universe ; mme.faye@yahoo.fr ; http://science.faye.free.fr
Where is Little Prince living?
French primary schools et high schools
Un aviateur écrivain: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Un livre: Le Petit Prince

15. 1943: Aviator Saint-Exupery imagined that the Little Prince lived on an asteroid
Rocks from a failed planet
between Mars and Jupiter
You should
better live on
an exoplanet
See 2 exercices for high
school

16. 1995: Michel Mayor, Haute-Provence Observatory, France
His team discovered the first exoplanet, revolving around 51 Pegasi
http://www.51pegasi-b.fr/pages/presentation/historique.html
Now in french high schools Curriculum and
exams ( Baccalaureat and Agregation) 
Finding an exoplanet / Doppler effect

17. Nowadays, Little Prince is surely living on an exoplanet, more comfortable than asteroid!
Quantitédelumière
Temps
Finding an exoplanet / Photometry

19. Happy french students at Southern European Observatory, Chile
Happy chilean teachers
Dark hole
Dark matter
Dark energy

20. Very Large Telescope, Observatoire Sud-Européen

21. 2 * a = 19,5 pixels
 a = 4,4 light days
T = 18 years
M = 3.1036 kg
= 1,5 . 106 Msun1992
1993
1995
1997
1997,6
2000
2000,6
2001
2001,5
20022002,2
2002,9
Finding the Black Hole in the center
of our Galaxy (Sgr A in Milky Way)

22. Finding Dark matter in galaxy NGC 7083
Redshift
Redshift of the core
+
« Relative » Doppler
shift by rotating around
the core

23. Middle school High school
Michel FAYE, mfaye2@wanadoo.fr Suzanne FAYE mme.faye@yahoo.fr

24. Middle school High school
Archeoastronomy Civilizations,
Stellarium
Distances and dimensions :Earth, Moon,
Earth-Moon SalsaJ, stars
Exoplanets by photometry SalsaJ Math
Flags and Astronomy History,
Geography, Math, Civilizations, Stellarium
Quality of air Stellarium
Sun (gaz)and Moon (rock), Moon craters
Stellarium
Van Gogh and astronomy Stellarium,
Google Sky
Archaeoastronomy C/S
Black Hole SgrA (Center of our Galaxy)
Kepler laws, Salsa J
Dark Matter in a galaxy, Salsa J Google
Sky
Diagram HR Salsa J
Exoplanets by photometry, Salsa J
Exoplanets by Doppler Effect, SalsaJ
Measuring distances with Cepheids
Salsa J
Measuring Hubble Constant, Google Sky
Precessions Stellarium
Satellites of Jupiter, Kepler laws, Salsa J
Venus Transits, Stellarium
Whirlpool galaxy M51, in Van
Gogh’s Starry Night
Thank you for your attention