Description
Astronomy SPK is an astronomy club in Satreephuket School that started with 3 students and 1 teacher who wanted to organize an activity to observe the partial solar eclipse that occurred on December 26, 2019. We helped each other buy solar glasses, help make simple sun-watching equipment, and use the school's telescope to organize the activity. They publicized it by word of mouth. It turned out that there was a lot of interest from teachers and students to join the activity. Therefore, the astronomy club was established in the school since the academic year 2020 onwards. Astronomy SPK is recruiting members who are passionate about astronomy, are motivated and ready to learn new things all the time in order to develop students to success according to their different aptitudes and needs in 3 subgroups: students interested in doing astronomy projects, students interested in taking the astronomy academic olympiad, and students interested in organizing astronomy activities.
The results of the continuous implementation up to the present have allowed students to continuously develop their potential as follows:
Group 1: Students can do an astronomy project on a topic based on their interests, such as factors affecting the error in the distance from the Earth to the Moon from the Lunar Occlusion of Venus using the Lunar Parallax method / a study of factors affecting the error in calculating the depth of impact craters on the Moon from First Quarter Moon photographs / factors affecting the twinkling of stars in cases where the observer is in a light-polluted area.
Group 2: Students can pass the selection for the Academic Olympics in Astronomy, Camp 2 in 2023, 2 people, and 2024, 2 people, and Earth and Space Science, 1 person.
Group 3 students have leadership skills and can organize astronomy activities for students from other schools, the public, and tourists in Phuket Province. As a result, Satreephuket School received the award for outstanding school performance in organizing astronomy activities for the community from National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (Public Organisation) last year.
