Planispheres & Binoculars
This videos topic: Some advice for beginning your hobby in amat
Planispheres & Binoculars
This videos topic: Some advice for beginning your hobby in amateur astronomy and how to use a planisphere.
Always remember that the most important tools are your eyes. Go out under the stars and look up!
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Google TechTalks
April 11, 2006
Alberto Conti
Carol Christian
ABSTRACT
A revolution is n
Google TechTalks
April 11, 2006
Alberto Conti
Carol Christian
ABSTRACT
A revolution is now underway in Astronomy and Astrophysics. The next decade will witness the completion of massive, wide-area, multicolor imaging and spectroscopic surveys of the local and distant Universe.
With its strong legacy of public outreach, Hubble's Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) has been responsible for how most of the world views our universe. We recognize that, given the coming flood of information, the next step of this task is to allow users to actively explore the cosmos themselves. In this talk we hope to show some of the potential explorations of this wealth of data to help us all better...
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DVD: http://hilaroad.com/video/ This short astronomy video introduces the constellation Or
DVD: http://hilaroad.com/video/ This short astronomy video introduces the constellation Orion and M42, the Orion Nebula. Interesting stars in and around the constellation ... all ยป include Betelgeuse, Rigel and Sirius. Light year as a unit of distance is mentioned. Intended to support astronomy curriculum, grades 4 to 9. http://hilaroad.com/video/ Visit http://hilaroad.com/camp/projects.html for related projects including a starfinder.
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Here's a little opener on the topic of Astronomy. Being a much more intuitive way of grasp
Here's a little opener on the topic of Astronomy. Being a much more intuitive way of grasping the things that happen to us in our own universe,
our own planet, distances in the universe and some basic and useful arguments that are very intuitive and very powerful against ignorance and
closed-minded arguments.
Links for the lecture:
The Electromagnetic Spectrum:
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/emspectrum .html
Pictures of the Sun (shrink/grow):
http://solar.physics.montana.edu/YPOP/Classroom/Lessons/Ecce ntricity/sunpix.html
Definition of a planet (from the International Astronomical Union):
http://www.iau.org/iau0603.414.0.html
The story behind Pluto's reconsideration as a planet:
http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=4459
Measuring the distance to the sun (Defining Astronomical Units):
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~soper/Sun/distance.html
http://www.badastronomy.com/mad/1996/au.html
Measuring Speed of Light:
http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/lectures/sped lite.html
Nice Speed/Distance Space calculator:
http://janus.astro.umd.edu/astro/distance/
Please send me your notes; i am only human, and if I am inaccurate about something, I want to know about it so I can correct myself. Don't
hesitate to correct me on anything scientific.
Enjoy,
~moo
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Astronomy Lecture - the Planets
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