Hello,

i'm a high school student and i'm soon going to work on a personal project during around half a year (which is working besides school itself + one full week). Everyone has to write and present such a piece of work before being allowed to do the final high school exams (i'm from Europe.. don't know if it's the same in the US). No matter what subject one chooses, there MUST be a "pracitcal" thing about it, that means we mustn't just summarize infos i've found in books (that can be done too but additionally there must be something we really do on our own).

For me it was soon clear that the practical part was to be something with programming (because I finally need to learn it properly anyway.. i have basic C++ knowledge). So now I just need a subject for which I can make a little piece of software and also a subject that is interesting to present and write about.

I personally am interested in astronomy but i'm not experienced in it. Now I wanted to ask WHAT kind of astronomy topic you would suggest to work on? I've been thinking about Black Holes for a while but i don't think there's any kind of program I could do with that.. since you all are so much more experienced i have come here to seek your help on this

Any topic suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated!

By the way my main subjects are maths and physics and the teacher who will most probably assist my work has studied maths, physics and astronomy (so there's someone experienced helping me out)

thanks a lot!