IRiS (Initiation to Research in Astronomy for Schools) is a robotic telescope, remotely controllable and located at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence (04). This project was initiated and financed by research laboratories in the sciences of the universe and in particle physics (OCEVU Laboratory of Excellence, Institut Pythéas, Marseille Astrophysics Laboratory, FOCUS Laboratory of Excellence, Paris Observatory), in partnership with the ministerial "Sciences at School" scheme, to enable (...)

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We started three types of funding, which mainly addressed a national audience : Equipment for practice in existing education programs : camera of a new robotic telescope for remote education programs (LabEx OCEVU funded the telescope), integrated spectrograph for the Grenoble “Institut Universitaire de Technologie” (IUT). Organization of a one-week training course at Observatoire de Haute Provence (OHP) dedicated to visible and IR detection ; it includes practices in the laboratory (...)

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