Project CLEA develops laboratory exercises that illustrate modern astronomical techniques using digital data and color images. The lab software contains a variety of optical telescopes of various apertures, equipped with photometer, spectrometer, and a CCD camera capable of taking images and saving them as FITS files for analysis. It also includes a radio telescope capable of recording incoming signals at three separate frequencies. The dataset for this exercise is a subset a more VIRTUAL EDUCATIONAL OBSERVATORY (VIREO) which includes over 15 million objects covering the entire sky. Like the all-sky dataset, the data supplied with the OBJECT X lab includes stars, galaxies, quasars, asteroids, and pulsars in several areas of the sky.

Project CLEA (Contemporary Laboratory Experiences in Astronomy) develops laboratory exercises that illustrate modern astronomical techniques using digital data and color images. They are suitable for high- school and college classes at all levels. Project CLEA puts to disposition of the didactic instruments dedicates to the radio astronomy. Two are the specific programs in this sense: Radio astronomy of pulsars and The rotation of Mercury by Doppler effect. For everyone they will come described to the peculiarities, the didactic fine and the procedures for the obtaining of meaningful measures. The described procedures do not differ minimally from the usual calculations carry out to you from astronomers. The didactic aspect is interlaced with the peculiarities of the official research.

In the present job they come introduced a series of didactic experiences inherent the topic of radio astronomy. Such experiences are enclosed in an handbook, that is freely downloadable and usable. These experiments could be used from amateur for their personal knowledge to make at home or from teachers for their didactic activity in a school. The activities proposed in this first job are six and spaces describing radioastronomical concepts, like the interference and the resolution, to comprising radioastronomical techniques, like the creation of radio maps or the analysis of the Moon or the star and radiogalaxies classification, in order to reach to measure the age of our Universe.

The 2009 Course of Didactics in Radio Astronomy, organized by Sezione di Ricerca Radioastronomia UAI, was dedicated to the radio meteors. The course, devoted to amateur astronomers and teachers, was divided in four sessions discussing on the following topics: basic meteor theory, observational techniques, data processing and analysis, amateur astronomer and didactic experiences. The first session was aimed to supply the basic elements of the meteoric science emphasizing the analysis and observational techniques. An innovative aspect of this course was the introduction of the topics in both radio and optical point of view. This approach offered a wide a more complete understanding of the meteoric phenomena. At last it was explained the contribution that amateur astronomer can give in this field of the astronomical research.