[omaha] Meeting tonight

[Louis Dorland]

http://www.omahaastro.com/
http://www.nebraskastarparty.org/
https://www.astroleague.org/
http://www.eclipsewise.com/solar/SEnews/TSE2017/TSE2017states/TSE2017stateNE.html
https://www.astroleague.org/al/obsclubs/sunspot/sunsptcl.html
https://xkcd.com/1833/
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
https://www.astroleague.org/al/obsclub/galileo_club/galileo_club.html
https://www.astroleague.org/PlanetaryTransit_Venus2012
https://www.astroleague.org/Analemma_Introduction
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160917.html
http://docs.astropy.org/en/v1.3.2/_downloads/examples_jupyter.zip
https://www.raspberrypi.org/
http://www.ap-i.net/skychart/en/start


On 5/23/2017 2:37 PM, Wes Turner wrote:
>
>
> On Monday, May 22, 2017, Louis Dorland via Omaha <omaha at python.org 
> <mailto:omaha at python.org>> wrote:
>
>     Measuring the parallax of Mercury enables the measurement of the
>     Earth/Sun distance.
>
>     Timing the eclipses of the moons of Jupiter allows you to
>     calculate the speed of light.
>
>
> Cool
>
> Would've been great to have seen this presentation.
> Is there a link?
>
> http://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/
>
>
>     Louis
>
>     > On May 19, 2017, at 1:50 PM, Travis Smith via Omaha
>     <omaha at python.org <javascript:;>> wrote:
>     >
>     > Ditto on the talk--those projects were very impressive!
>     >
>     > Louis:  so much content got covered, that it became a little
>     difficult to
>     > comprehend the how you were able to do some of the things you
>     showed us.
>     > If you'd ever like to do a deep dive on the Jupiter's moons
>     analysis, I
>     > think that would be neat.  Sounded like you were using
>     observations of the
>     > moons and then having Python deduce orbit times, but it wasn't
>     clear to me
>     > how you were doing that.
>     >
>     > Likewise, I thought the effort to standardize all of your images
>     of the sun
>     > was very interesting, but I would like to see the code.  As I
>     understand
>     > it, you were using some formula to orient the sun based on it's
>     lat lon
>     > constuct, and using that you could standardize the images.
>     Deducing lat
>     > lon on a gaseous body is an interesting problem in its own
>     right, and
>     > something I hadn't considered before.
>     >
>     > Once you had that, you also incorporated a series of images from
>     various
>     > observatories, all centered around the transit of Mercury in
>     front of the
>     > Sun.  Combining that with your own telescope's observations, you
>     showed us
>     > a superimposed image of Mercury, with offsets of the planet from
>     each
>     > observatory, and told us that you could measure the speed of
>     light using
>     > this image.  I believe you...but how?
>     >
>     > My own reasoning:  if you know the distance between observation
>     points, you
>     > can take the difference in position of Mercury, calculate
>     parallax, and
>     > triangulate distance to Mercury in some way, but that wouldn't
>     give you the
>     > speed of light...it would give the distance to Mercury.
>     >
>     > This was a fascinating and long ranging talk, and it made me
>     think.  Thanks
>     > for putting it on!
>     >
>     > Travis
>     >
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>     >
>     > On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Bob Haffner via Omaha
>     <omaha at python.org <javascript:;>>
>     > wrote:
>     >
>     >> Great meeting last night!  Very interesting talk by Louis.
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> Any speaking volunteers for June??
>     >>
>     >> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 7:33 AM, Steve Young via Omaha
>     <omaha at python.org <javascript:;>>
>     >> wrote:
>     >>
>     >>> Hope you can make it.
>     >>>
>     >>> May Meeting – Astronomy Projects with Python Tools
>     >>> WHEN: May 17, 2017 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
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