Registration

Thank you for your interest in registering with The Schools’ Observatory.

Registration is free, simple and takes less than 5 minutes to complete. Once you are registered you can immediately access all that The Schools’ Observatory has to offer. The main reason we ask you to create an account is to enable you to use the telescope and so the telescope has somewhere to send the observations once completed. We will of course NEVER pass on your data to anyone else without your permission.
 

• You are a teacher, trainee teacher or home educator: Register as an Educator
   
• You are a school or FE student:
  • If your teacher is registered, they can create a student account for you
  • Otherwise: you can Register as an Explorer
     
• Anyone else: you can Register as an Explorer

The Schools’ Observatory also provides educational resources to help with the challenging task of teaching science, technology and mathematics in the classroom environment. It has long been known that astronomy creates a sense of excitement and wonder in pupils of all ages. The Schools’ Observatory taps into that interest to further the pupil's knowledge of science and mathematics, while at the same time improve computer literacy and communications skills, strengthen critical thinking and provide experience the real-world application of science and technology.

Using astronomical telescopes is the most important feature of this website and schools registered with The Schools' Observatory have the opportunity to make their observations using the Liverpool Telescope, the world's largest fully robotic telescope. Over the past 12 months, we have had observing requests from schools.

Once an observing request has been completed, you are able to log in to your account and download the telescope data, then use special image processing software (provided for free via this website) to analyse the resulting images.
 

The following table contains details about the different FREE registration options, we also have dedicated pages to get you started.