What are the programs of Geometry in Astronomy?
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Question by Alle: What are the programs of Geometry in Astronomy?
I have to do this presentation of all around 20 slides so I have to have a lot of info and one-way links and stuff. I’m not equipped to come across enough info so if anyone could like aid me out that’d be brilliant. Also it could even be apps of Trigonometry (it is a variety of geometry..ideal?) in Astronomy.
Essentially it HAS to be about Astronomy and all the math (Geometry) that’s concerned in it.
I need to have one-way links and urls exclusively or a Great deal of data
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Response by Alan
Certainly trigonometry is essential in astro for measuring the distances to planets and stars.
We use a sort of triangulation but we get in touch with it parallax.
We use two telescopes to seem at a world, a person scope in the north, (say Edinburgh) and 1 in the south (say South Africa) and position them both equally at Venus, the difference amongst the angle of the scopes when compared to distant stars provides us a triangle with a known base length (the Edinburgh-South Africa distance)
To measure the distance to stars this base is to brief so we take two photo’s 6 months apart, the Earth has then traveled to the opposite facet of the sunshine, 93 million miles situations two so we have a base line 186 million miles very long.
Hope this assists. Alan
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Problem by : Can everyone propose me astronomy publications?
I want to get the newest updates from all through the environment about astronomy. Pls recommend me a journal.
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Very well you could try the journal titled Astronomy…..
http://www.astronomy.com/
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January 26th, 2012 at 11:00 pm
Observational Astronomy is but Practical application of all Geometry, with Trigonometry as a tool.
January 26th, 2012 at 11:42 pm
Do your own homework. Absolutely everything in astronomy uses geometry…
January 26th, 2012 at 11:58 pm
Either “Astronomy” or “Sky and Telescope” magazine
January 27th, 2012 at 12:09 am
The best of the American magazines are Sky and Telescope or Astronomy Magazine. The best of the British ones are Astronomy Now and the BBC’s Sky at Night Magazine. However, I don’t know what might be available in your region.
January 27th, 2012 at 12:31 am
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January 27th, 2012 at 12:40 am
Something a bit different but good fun is to download Google Earth and once installed find the button at the top of the screen which looks a bit like Saturn (it has a ring) click it and it’ll offer you 4 options: Earth, Sky, Moon and Mars. Choose Sky and have a look around, you can zoom in an incredibly long way as many of the pictures are from the Hubble. Clicking on stars, galaxies and nebulae will give you more info. Or just set it off spinning slowly in front of you and relax like me.
Enjoy.