In order to register the participation of a group, one of its members must write an email to eduinfo@eso.org. Be sure to mention:

• the name of the chosen object
• the names of all the members of your group
• the ages of the students, and
• the name and address of your school (with city and country) and your email-address.

2. Current Status of Registrations

Here is the complete overview of the participants and their projects. Their chosen objects are listed below by category and by country.

Date: February 19, 2005

No. of teams registered: 364

No. of countries represented: 25

Object(s)/Subject(s) with most entries: The Venus Transit (38), Mars (21), The Moon (20), The Sun (15), Black Holes (13) and Jupiter (12).

Countries with most entries: Bulgaria (94), Poland (63), United Kingdom (33), Sweden (27) and Denmark (23).

No. of "Official Participants" : 251

Official participants are teams who have submitted their reports and which have been found to conform with the Catch a Star! rules and hence accepted by the jury for participation in the competition. These teams are marked in colour in the corresponding "country" and "object" lists.