Monthly Archives: February 2024

Module III, Group 5

Posted on February 28, 2024 by rodriguezaj26

Group 5, Abram J. Rodriguez, Matthew Toman  To find the density of hydrogen atoms in the flame nebula we first recorded its angular size, making sure to start from the center and avoiding spires. After that we looked up the … Continue reading →

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Module 2 Group 3

Posted on February 16, 2024 by tomanm27

                This observation know as M 35 is also on the younger side. It was chosen because it was easily visible and the HSC telescope was able to get nice picture of it. … Continue reading →

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Module 2: Group 5 – Will Ames & Cole Kirschner

Posted on February 15, 2024 by kirschnerc25

Open Cluster: NGC 3114 This observation of the Open Cluster NGC 3114 was taken with a Prompt 5 telescope in La Serena Chile. We used filters B, V, R, and I. The exposure for B was set to 30.0s, V … Continue reading →

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Module 2 – Group 2 – Joshua Ferreira & Jeremy Wehking

Posted on February 15, 2024 by wehkingj25

In this module, we first took pictures of the open star cluster, NGC 2070 using optical imaging. We did this by using Skynet and the La Serena telescope in Chile. We used the filters B, V, R, and I. We … Continue reading →

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Module 2: Jack Glassner and Bradley Armour

Posted on February 14, 2024 by glassnerj26

For this module we observed the star cluster Messier 44 aka the beehive cluster. This was done using the H-SC telescope and filters B,V,R, and I. The B,V, and R filters were used to best match the wavelength response of … Continue reading →

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