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Instructions are attached Equipment •Stellarium ver. 0.18.3 (I will email you the exe file for Windows 64x) •Calculator •Ruler with centimeter markings •A pen or pencil•A set of three different colored pencils/pens •A length of string about 33 cm long •The provided data table and graphs for each of the locations.

Read the directions carefully! Options for completing this assignment: Print out PDF, complete by hand, and upload a scan/image of the completed page or Write answers in a Word doc or similar file and upload the file or Handwrite answers on blank sheet of paper and upload a scan/image of the page Correctly complete all […]

Tile Page Sky Wheel Section Brief introduction to the skywheel No matter what time of year, which star doesn’t move as the earth revolves around the sun? At midnight on December 12th, Ursa Major is just above which horizon? On November 9th at 10:00 pm, where would I look to see Orion? Does your latitude […]

Chapter 3 Learning Objective   PHYS1403 The book for this course is: ·              Fraknoi, Morrison, and Wolff. Astronomy, OpenStax CNX. OpenStax CNX is available in a variety of formats at:  o   OpenStax Astronomy CNX (You may select the newer version of the book.)   https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/3-thinking-ahead   1. Tycho Brahe’s Observatory 2. Johannes Kepler   3. Newton’s Laws of Motion DESCRIPTION: […]

1. Suppose that the Earth spun backwards but still orbits the Sun…what would happen to the seasons and the day/night cycle in thissituation for San Diego? Why? What would happen at the Northand South Poles? What would happen at the Equator? How wouldthis affect life on Earth?

How do you answer the question? Does science add or subtract to your appreciation of the world? Watch this clip from scientist Richard Feynman about the nature of science as it relates to the beauty of a flower. Richard Feynman – Ode To A Flower (1:10) (Links to an external site.) Minimize Video Please write your […]

The scientific method is a methodical approach to gaining new information about the world around us. The steps are: Observation Hypothesis Experiment Confirm or refute hypothesis New hypothesis Give an example of a problem in your life that you could use the Scientific Method o solve. For example, I noticed that there is water in the cabinet […]

First Topic: Light pollution is not only a problem for astronomers; it also has been shown to have an adverse impact on human health and wildlife. Light pollution wastes energy but does little to increase safety.   For Post 1: Browse through the material posted by the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) on their website, http://www.darksky.org/about-ida, and also […]

All information and the formula needed are provided in the instructions. Should not take up too much of your time. Example from lab: Scale = 67.3 cm 1, 390, 000 km = 4.84 × 10−5 cm km To find the size or distance between objects in centimeters for the model, simply multiply the actual size […]

Using procedures provided in the document attached, use Kepler’s third law, and scientific notation to solve the equations. All formulas provided. One question does require the answer to be in graph form. Also the need to figure out the following: Consider an imaginary planet that orbits the sun at 15 times the distance from the […]