October 12th
Today was a little cloudy so it was difficult to do this observation. So at around 8:30 all I could see was the moon and very close tot he moon was a 1st magnitude star. I did this observation for 15 minutes.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Observations
October 6th
At 9:00 PM the moon was in the East and was a waining gibus, the sliver of the moon that was missing was facing towards the eliptic. After surching for some consitilations I saw the Herculies constilation which was almost straight up in the sky. I look 30 minutes to do this observation.
At 9:00 PM the moon was in the East and was a waining gibus, the sliver of the moon that was missing was facing towards the eliptic. After surching for some consitilations I saw the Herculies constilation which was almost straight up in the sky. I look 30 minutes to do this observation.
Observations
October 16th
Today I did the observation for only 15 minutes at around 9PM. I was that Saturn and Venus both were close to the moon. Both to the left of the moon. Saturn a little bit higher than Venus.
Today I did the observation for only 15 minutes at around 9PM. I was that Saturn and Venus both were close to the moon. Both to the left of the moon. Saturn a little bit higher than Venus.
Observations
October 7th
At around 6:45 looking East Venus was still very high in the sky but I could tell that it had lowered. Very close to Venus but still closer to the horizon was Saturn and less than half a degree was Mercury. This was very interesting because I could see that from yesterday the stars had moves. I did this observation for 30 minutes.
At around 6:45 looking East Venus was still very high in the sky but I could tell that it had lowered. Very close to Venus but still closer to the horizon was Saturn and less than half a degree was Mercury. This was very interesting because I could see that from yesterday the stars had moves. I did this observation for 30 minutes.
Observations
October 5th
At 6:45 Venus was low in the sky. Right below Venus was Mercury then Saturn even lower. Later on the moon rose up at around 8, and the moon was almost full. I observed the sky for 30 minutes.
At 6:45 Venus was low in the sky. Right below Venus was Mercury then Saturn even lower. Later on the moon rose up at around 8, and the moon was almost full. I observed the sky for 30 minutes.
Observations
September 30th
I attended the star gaze. We viewed Jupiter though a telescope and were able to see Jupiter's moons. After one hour of observations the weather was not perfect, the sky was too cloudy to finish the rest of the time.
I attended the star gaze. We viewed Jupiter though a telescope and were able to see Jupiter's moons. After one hour of observations the weather was not perfect, the sky was too cloudy to finish the rest of the time.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Astro project Kepler
Shannon Sims
Mr. Percival
Astronomy Hon.
16 Oct. 2009
Johannes Kepler’s biography
On Decempber 27, 1571 at 2:30 PM Johannes Kepler was born. He was born in the Roman Empire of German Nationality in Weil der Stadt. Even though he was an unhealthy child he managed to get a scholarship to the University of Tubingen because of his elevated aptitude. At the University of Tubingen he studied for the Lutheran ministry. Kepler’s family was Lutheran however he did not agree with the Lutheran position on real presence, so he refused to sign the Formula of Concord, this got him rejected by the Lutheran church. Since he had been rejected by the church, and also the Catholic Church he had no safe haven in the Thirty-Year War, wich caused him to move a lot in his life time. He was eventually forced to leave Graz, where he was teaching, because of the Counter Reformation. He then moved to Prague and worked with Tycho Brache. Because he worked so closely with Tycho Brache, when he dies in 1601 Kepler got some of Tycho Brache’s in-depth, precise notes. Because Kepler was able to use Brache’s notes he was able to make many remarkable discoveries. Only eight years after Brache’s death Kepler published Astronomia Nova. This published work dealt with his discoveries and are now called “Kepler’s first two laws of planetary motion” in this book he also states that the sun revolves on an axis. In Astronomia Nova Kepler published how he overcame the flawed data. Later on his methods would go on to be called the scientific method. Again he was forced to move in 1612 from Prague to Linz. At this point in his life he was very troubled because his two sons and wife had passed away, and even though he had remarried he had private and monetary troubles. After the passing of his two daughter he moved again back to Wurttemburg. In Wurttemburg he wrote Harmonices Mundi. Astronomia Nova. In this published paper his third law was described. He continued to be forced to move but never gave up on his Astronomical discoveries. He later published Epitome Astronomiae around 1621. In this work he wrote about all of the heliocentric astronomy in an organized manner. Even later he published the Rudolphine Table. This table had been imagined by Brache. The table included the calculations for logarithms that he had created. In 1630 at Regensburg Johannes Kepler died on his was to collect a debt. Within two years his grave had been razed on account of the Thirty Year War. Kepler was the first person to accurately describe the planetary motion, how the planets obit around the sun. He is honored as the first person to use a pin hole camera to observe pictures with, describe how vision works, create glasses for far and nearsighted people, and to describe depth perception. These discriptions are all in his book Astronomia Pars Optica. He also formed a basis for integral calculus in Strerometrica Doliorum. As well as all of the accomplishments he also found out Christ’s birth year, which is now universally accepted.
Mr. Percival
Astronomy Hon.
16 Oct. 2009
Johannes Kepler’s biography
On Decempber 27, 1571 at 2:30 PM Johannes Kepler was born. He was born in the Roman Empire of German Nationality in Weil der Stadt. Even though he was an unhealthy child he managed to get a scholarship to the University of Tubingen because of his elevated aptitude. At the University of Tubingen he studied for the Lutheran ministry. Kepler’s family was Lutheran however he did not agree with the Lutheran position on real presence, so he refused to sign the Formula of Concord, this got him rejected by the Lutheran church. Since he had been rejected by the church, and also the Catholic Church he had no safe haven in the Thirty-Year War, wich caused him to move a lot in his life time. He was eventually forced to leave Graz, where he was teaching, because of the Counter Reformation. He then moved to Prague and worked with Tycho Brache. Because he worked so closely with Tycho Brache, when he dies in 1601 Kepler got some of Tycho Brache’s in-depth, precise notes. Because Kepler was able to use Brache’s notes he was able to make many remarkable discoveries. Only eight years after Brache’s death Kepler published Astronomia Nova. This published work dealt with his discoveries and are now called “Kepler’s first two laws of planetary motion” in this book he also states that the sun revolves on an axis. In Astronomia Nova Kepler published how he overcame the flawed data. Later on his methods would go on to be called the scientific method. Again he was forced to move in 1612 from Prague to Linz. At this point in his life he was very troubled because his two sons and wife had passed away, and even though he had remarried he had private and monetary troubles. After the passing of his two daughter he moved again back to Wurttemburg. In Wurttemburg he wrote Harmonices Mundi. Astronomia Nova. In this published paper his third law was described. He continued to be forced to move but never gave up on his Astronomical discoveries. He later published Epitome Astronomiae around 1621. In this work he wrote about all of the heliocentric astronomy in an organized manner. Even later he published the Rudolphine Table. This table had been imagined by Brache. The table included the calculations for logarithms that he had created. In 1630 at Regensburg Johannes Kepler died on his was to collect a debt. Within two years his grave had been razed on account of the Thirty Year War. Kepler was the first person to accurately describe the planetary motion, how the planets obit around the sun. He is honored as the first person to use a pin hole camera to observe pictures with, describe how vision works, create glasses for far and nearsighted people, and to describe depth perception. These discriptions are all in his book Astronomia Pars Optica. He also formed a basis for integral calculus in Strerometrica Doliorum. As well as all of the accomplishments he also found out Christ’s birth year, which is now universally accepted.
APOD 1.7
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090926.html
Herschel Views the Milky Way
This picture was taken with a 3.5 meter mirror telescope. This telescope is larger than the Hubble Space Telescope. This telescope,Herschel ESA, is the fourth cornerstone mission in the European Space Agency (ESA) science programme. This telescope was named after Frederick Herschel, a German British astronomer. Over 200 years ago he discovered infrared light. This light is used to show the spectacular view along the Milky Way. This telescope was designed to observe the mysteries of star formation with the surveying broad areas of the galactic plane.
Herschel Views the Milky Way
This picture was taken with a 3.5 meter mirror telescope. This telescope is larger than the Hubble Space Telescope. This telescope,Herschel ESA, is the fourth cornerstone mission in the European Space Agency (ESA) science programme. This telescope was named after Frederick Herschel, a German British astronomer. Over 200 years ago he discovered infrared light. This light is used to show the spectacular view along the Milky Way. This telescope was designed to observe the mysteries of star formation with the surveying broad areas of the galactic plane.
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