Selected films have been made into specialised packages with accompanying booklets suggesting exercises suitable for undergraduates or final year school students. Other films have been made into visual aid packages for use by schools, colleges or amateur groups. The only equipment necessary for most of the exercises is a simple light box and a hand magnifier. This package consists of ten film copies together with a set of detailed notes suggesting a variety of exercises. Some exercises are elementary and can be completed by first year students in one session while others are suitable for longer or more advanced projects.
Some projects are suitable for use in schools.
A prism can be mounted on the UK Schmidt Telescope so that the light from every star and galaxy is spread out into a spectrum instead of being focused at a point. These packages are designed as visual aids. Each package consists of 10 films of different areas of the sky and each film is accompanied by a brief descriptive sheet listing the most interesting objects visible. Each package includes films showing many different types of astronomical objects. There are no specific exercises provided but suggestions for projects to show the structure of the galaxy, hunting for asteroids, galaxy classification etc are included.