Author: Mark Hanning-Lee Date: To: Utah Valley Astronomy Association, Utah-Astronomy Mailing List, Patrick Wiggins, SLAS Webmaster New-Topics: [Utah-astronomy] Free Dobsonian Mount Subject: [Utah-astronomy] WorldWide Star Count
The next two weekends may be a good time to share the Great WorldWide Star Count with the public. The appearance of Cygnus is compared to maps printed for various limiting magnitudes. See http://www.windows.ucar.edu/citizen_science/starcount/ . The project runs until the return of significant evening moonlight on Nov. 3.
During a star party, we could bring up several topics:
Light pollution
The stages of evening twilight
Dark adaptation
No white lights
The scatter among measurements made by different people
The more you look the more you see
Aperture and magnification, and how they affect the field of view
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