Monthly Archives: January 2024
Module 1 – Group 3 – Joseph Corrigan & Jeremy Wehking
We first took pictures of the moon using optical imaging. We did this by using Skynet and the HSC telescope. We used the filters U, Halpha, and OIII and we set the exposure duration to 0.03 seconds. Later, we received … Continue reading
Module 1 Group 2
I submitted 200 pictures of the moon. I submitted them in Halpha, OIII, SIII. I aligned the photos and then stacked them. I had some bad pictures so my final optical observation did not come out great. I tried to … Continue reading
Group 5 – Module 1: Observing the Moon and Planets
We observed the Moon using the HSC telescope. This process began by setting our min target elevation to 30 and min visible hours to 0.75 so as to get a clear view of the moon. From there we selected filters … Continue reading
Module 1-B Group 1 – Abram Rodriguez & Will Ames
Abram J. Rodriguez, William Ames Temperature of an Object Using Flux Density We decided to do radio images of the moon and Tau A as our calibration image in order to find the temperature of the moon when it was … Continue reading
Module 1-A Group 1 – Will Ames & Abram Rodriguez
My partner and I enjoyed messing around and tweaking our observations on Skynet. There were definitively some challenges, but we were able to work through them by getting lots of observations early on in the week. The images were taken … Continue reading