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