Wow! What a great idea for teaching parallax to my astronomy students at Northridge! Did you do any calculations to see what the expected parallax angle would be? Any compensation for atmospheric refraction differences? Great work, Patrick. Wayne A. Sumner Math/Physics/Astronomy/Engineering Boy's Tennis Coach Northridge High School Davis School District (801) 402-8610
Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> 08/22/08 12:46 AM >>> Those who were at the SLAS meeting the other evening may have heard me mention I've been working with a high school student in Korea who is doing a project on parallax. She is in Korea and has remote access to a telescope in Hawaii (not one of Rob's on Haleakala). She was looking for someone in the continental US to shoot pictures of a minor planet at the same time she was.
It took two attempts before we got the communications bugs worked out but last night we succeeded. See the result in the lower right hand corner of of this page: http://gallery.utahastronomy.com/main.php?g2_itemId=10620&g2_page=2 While the target was too far away to show any obvious parallax it was still a fun project and just goes to show the fun things one can attempt these days. patrick _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://gallery.utahastronomy.com Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com
Yes, indeed Patrick - a great project. By what method or methods did you and/or Ms. Park attempt to measure parallax? Kim -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Sumner Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 1:31 PM To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] International cooperation Wow! What a great idea for teaching parallax to my astronomy students at Northridge! Did you do any calculations to see what the expected parallax angle would be? Any compensation for atmospheric refraction differences? Great work, Patrick. Wayne A. Sumner Math/Physics/Astronomy/Engineering Boy's Tennis Coach Northridge High School Davis School District (801) 402-8610 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.6.6/1627 - Release Date: 8/22/2008 6:48 AM
Hi Wayne and Kim, On 22 Aug 2008, at 13:30, Wayne Sumner wrote:
Wow! What a great idea for teaching parallax to my astronomy students at Northridge!
Just try to find a target that's closer. Hmmm, maybe the Moon viewed from two widely spaced locations during an encounter with the Pleiades. Think of the possibilities of stereo viewing...
Did you do any calculations to see what the expected parallax angle would be? Any compensation for atmospheric refraction differences?
No to both. Admittedly I did think the target was too far away to see any obvious parallax but it seemed like a fun project and I didn't want to burst her bubble. And besides, in science we learn from out failures as well as our successes. On 22 Aug 2008, at 13:40, Kim A. Hyatt wrote:
Yes, indeed Patrick - a great project. By what method or methods did you and/or Ms. Park attempt to measure parallax?
She didn't say so just considered me the data-droid. I sent her the data and she's going to measure it for her school project. Cheers, patrick
If you keep in touch with her, I would be curious to know how she intends to make measurements to "see" the parallax - blink comparator, direct image measurements, or some other method. Thanks for sharing, Patrick. -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Patrick Wiggins Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 4:43 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] International cooperation Hi Wayne and Kim, On 22 Aug 2008, at 13:30, Wayne Sumner wrote:
Wow! What a great idea for teaching parallax to my astronomy students at Northridge!
Just try to find a target that's closer. Hmmm, maybe the Moon viewed from two widely spaced locations during an encounter with the Pleiades. Think of the possibilities of stereo viewing...
Did you do any calculations to see what the expected parallax angle would be? Any compensation for atmospheric refraction differences?
No to both. Admittedly I did think the target was too far away to see any obvious parallax but it seemed like a fun project and I didn't want to burst her bubble. And besides, in science we learn from out failures as well as our successes. On 22 Aug 2008, at 13:40, Kim A. Hyatt wrote:
Yes, indeed Patrick - a great project. By what method or methods did you and/or Ms. Park attempt to measure parallax?
She didn't say so just considered me the data-droid. I sent her the data and she's going to measure it for her school project. Cheers, patrick _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://gallery.utahastronomy.com Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.6.6/1627 - Release Date: 8/22/2008 6:48 AM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.6.6/1627 - Release Date: 8/22/2008 6:48 AM
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