Metsähovi welcomes schools to explore the radio observatory's research activities in May 2024

Aalto University's Metsähovi Radio Observatory celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. We are organising two separate visiting days for secondary school children to celebrate the anniversary of Finland's only astronomical radio observatory. A tour of the Metsähovi Radio Observatory offers the opportunity to explore astronomical research! The tour includes several checkpoints, where schoolchildren can make various radio astronomical observations with radio telescopes and researchers and hear about the observatory's key research topics, such as studying the sun or black holes.

Among other things, the tour offers the opportunity to:

• use a 14-metre radio telescope to map solar activity.
• make space weather forecasts; measure the movements of interstellar gas clouds with 6-metre radio telescopes.
• determine the Earth's movement speed in space from the results, and familiarise themselves with radio astronomical instruments. 

Tour days are on Thursday 16.5.2024 and Friday 17.5.2024. On both tour days, there will be three separate 1.5-hour guided tours of the observatory area. Tours are scheduled as follows:

9.30–11.00
11.30–13.00
13.30–15.00
 

NB. All tours on Thursday are fully booked. You can still register for Friday Tours via the link below:

Metsähovi school visits (Spring 2024)