Day 3: Instructors workshop for the “Astronomy in Ghana” OAD project.

As part of their end of year project set aside by the young astronomers from Katapor, they have decided to build the Prototype of the Radio Telescope in Kutunse, Ghana. Below are the technical team(Katapor Patron, Cephas and the astronomy club members) working on their project.

Prof. Benjamin Stappers, a Professor of Astrophysics in the Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics(The University of Manchester) and Ahenkorah Duodu Kingsley a PhD student of the University of Leeds interacted with the PRAGSAC club members at Kutunse M/A basic 1,2,3 and 4 students today to inspire them about Radio Astronomy.

The PRAGSAC team took part in the Eratosthenes’s experiment March, 2019 (measure radius of the Earth using the sun’s shadow) with Jerremite International School, West Legon and Unity Baptist Academy School, Achimota Ghana astronomy club members in a worldwide experiment.