Post by pickinduck on Oct 10, 2016 6:56:37 GMT -6
Lunar Ranging
Last night I was thinking there should be something in astronomy that we could do together and one thing that came to mind is that our greatest asset is the vast distance that we are apart and maybe we could put that to use. We could try and find out for ourselves how far the moon and maybe other thing are away from the earth? We could take our own measurements and do our own calculations and compare them to what science has.
If we get or make something like this.
www.estesrockets.com/rockets/accessories/002232-altitraktm
Then find out how far apart we are.
Then each of us at the same time takes a sighting of the moon and records its angle.
Then we should be able to figure out roughly how far the moon is away.
Last night I was thinking there should be something in astronomy that we could do together and one thing that came to mind is that our greatest asset is the vast distance that we are apart and maybe we could put that to use. We could try and find out for ourselves how far the moon and maybe other thing are away from the earth? We could take our own measurements and do our own calculations and compare them to what science has.
If we get or make something like this.
www.estesrockets.com/rockets/accessories/002232-altitraktm
Then find out how far apart we are.
Then each of us at the same time takes a sighting of the moon and records its angle.
Then we should be able to figure out roughly how far the moon is away.