Showing posts with label celestial sphere. Show all posts
Showing posts with label celestial sphere. Show all posts

Saturday, October 8, 2011

The Celestial Sphere and Observational Planning

Wksht 2 was very, very long, and we were able to write up problems one and two. We got quite far on Problem seven, but Jackie informed us that it was unnecessary, so if we have time we might attempt it ater. (Maybe not - but we got through the theory of it very well and now could do it quite easily!) Here's the problem set: Ws Celestial Sphere And here are our solutions: wksht2

Two drawings are also necessary, which will be uploaded soon. But here is my graph of tau Ceti's time of meridian crossing (see problem 2):