What really should I title my investigation paper on astronomy all through the Renaissance?

10 Responses to “What really should I title my investigation paper on astronomy all through the Renaissance?”

1. Ash Coster Says:
   October 10th, 2011 at 11:07 am

   Astronomy through the ages : The Renaissance era

2. Bobbystick Says:
   October 10th, 2011 at 11:53 am

   How about : Do you see what I see; a history of Renaissance Astronomy and the men that pioneered a new science.

3. earthdrivenforce Says:
   October 10th, 2011 at 12:35 pm

   “The Renaissance Era: An Astronomical Viewpoint”

   “Astronomical Advances During the Renaissance Era”

   “Astronomical Advances in the Renaissance Era”

   I’m trying to do a play on words here…. trying to intermingle the two meanings of the word “astronomical”….

   Astronomical (definition 1): of, pertaining to, or connected with astronomy

   Astronomical (def. 2): extremely large; enormous: as in “an astronomical sum”

   I also thought of another one…. one more “mysterious”… to get the reader curious … and into wanting to continue on reading your paper… here it is:

   “The Astronomical Secrets of the Renaissance Era”

   Hope the titles I came up with have somewhat of a spicy ring and punch to them! =)
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   SUMMARY OF TITLES YOU COULD PICK FROM:

   1) “The Renaissance Era: An Astronomical Viewpoint”

   2) “Astronomical Advances During the Renaissance Era”

   3) “Astronomical Advances in the Renaissance Era”

   4) “The Astronomical Secrets of the Renaissance Era”

   Hope I was of some help to you…

4. eri Says:
   October 10th, 2011 at 1:18 pm

   You’re going to need coordinates for the area of the sky, in right ascention and declination.

   You can start with the Digitized Sky Survey here:
   http://archive.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/dss_form
   It will give you a picture (be sure to change the file format from FITS to GIF) of that region of the sky.

   You can get the coordinates of all the stars and their magnitudes from the USNO catalog here:
   http://www.nofs.navy.mil/data/fchpix/

   You can find other info about individual stars on SIMBAD:
   http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/

   And if you want to combine them all, download a copy of DS9 from the SAO/Harvard website. Just google ds9, the link isn’t working right now.

   It’s a free program that will download the images and catalogs for you for a region of the sky. It’s put out by the Harvard astronomy dept. These are the tools astronomers use every day.

5. injanier Says:
   October 10th, 2011 at 2:09 pm

   Try Cartes du Ciel: http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/

6. i-make-viruses Says:
   October 10th, 2011 at 2:57 pm

   this program might work.
   http://edu.kde.org/kstars/

   assuming you use linux. if you are you using ubuntu just sudo aptitude install kstars

   but i doubt you have linux lol

7. screaming monk Says:
   October 10th, 2011 at 3:53 pm

   SKYGLOBE is an amazing piece of freeware/shareware. It shows the planets and sun’s position in real time, as well as many Messier objects on a backdrop of labelled constellations and major stars. There are lots of user-friendly controls and the app requires very little resources.

8. Hale2bopp Says:
   October 10th, 2011 at 4:17 pm

   you can also try ‘celestia’, which is like a 3D simulation of space, and it gives you the name and even some information if you click on various celestial objects, not just stars. Just go to google and type “celestia” and you will be able to take it from there.

9. noneya b Says:
   October 10th, 2011 at 5:00 pm

   i concur celestria hands down. get the sloan digital sky survey data and have a ball.
   there are many add ons for it its awesome!

10. Geoff G Says:
    October 10th, 2011 at 5:28 pm

    Cartes Du Ciel is probably the most complete and accurate of the free programs, though I’m partial to Starry Night myself, though it’s not free:

    http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/
    http://www.starrynight.com

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