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