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Antarctica Day – 5th June 2020

22 May, 2020/0 Comments/in Events, Kate in Antarctica, News/by Jonathan

Northumbria researcher and NUSTEM stalwart Dr. Kate Winter is joining a day of celebration of the 200th anniversary of the discovery of Antarctica. Organised by our friends at the Festival of Nature, the day will be held entirely on Facebook, featuring film showings, story readings, presentations and Q&A. There’s a great line-up of scientists, wildlife photographers, filmmakers and conservationists, and it’s all free!

Join in on Friday 5th June 2020 – see the flier below for a full schedule of the day:

FON2020 Antarctica Day (PDF download, 460Kb)

First Light in a Dark Room

5 November, 2019/0 Comments/in CACOON/by Joe Shimwell

Dominic and Paul inspect our first images
Photography with the CACOON camera is trial and error.
Washing our best images
Test #3 in the Fixing Bath
Paul retrieves our over-exposed first image from the Fixing Bath
Paul peers into the darkness of the first over-exposed image
Behold the CACOON camera
Our best image: 3 exposures, 5 minutes apart, with triple-folded tissue paper

The images above have been nine months in the making. That’s precisely the amount of time needed to:

Talk to research scientist Paul about CACOON, permafrost and the Arctic
Find a local artist, meet with them and explain the project
Prototype a camera that we can use in schools workshop to model permafrost melt using ice
Put the prototype back into the sink (it was made from a washing up bowl) and build the sleek, black camera in the gallery above
Fire up the camera and take our first exposures!

The next step is a bit of process refinement: we need to make the camera usable in a school environment. We’ll be stress-testing the camera and the procedure over the coming months – come back for more information!

13th July – Light Painting

13 July, 2016/0 Comments/in Heaton Manor Workshop/by James Brown

Hey there Heaton Manor! As promised, here are all your light painting images that you created this afternoon. Good work! But don’t stop there – check out our light painting page, get inspired and have a go at making your own at home. If you do, we’d love to see the results, so feel free to send us a copy. Get creating!

Space Maths and Light Painting

16 November, 2015/0 Comments/in Heworth Grange Explore Your Universe, Workshop/by Carol

Today, Carol and James visited Heworth Grange to run two workshops.

We did Space Maths – for more on that, check out our page of extra activities. Trust us, you really want to follow the link to the ‘Tediously accurate scale model of the solar system.” No, really.

We also did light and photography: we’ve another page of extra material around light painting, including some jaw-dropping videos. Here are the light painting photos you took in the workshop: