Re: computational amateur astronomy?
Is it possible with amateur equipment to make any
> sort of meaningful calculations? Distances, speeds, anything?
Of course! Depends what you want to do.
Our astro society made the most of a grazing occultation of Jupiter and
managed to calculate the distance to the Moon from the photos that were
taken from 2 sites separated by about 40 miles
The more Northerly of the sites had a video taken, of which some of the
frames are collated here;
http://www.aozc64.dsl.pipex.com/astro/Pictures/Composite.jpg
You could do many more things if you want
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Relevant Pages
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(sci.anthropology.paleo) - Re: Savanna believers are stupid stupid stupid (Re: Ealine Morgan
... While horses, for example, have been shown to possess energetically optimal speeds ... may enable human hunters to pursue the prey animal at speeds that force it to run ... been the occupation of a new niche as a diurnal endurance predator. ... distances, and are able to run at high speeds for long distances to get to the ...
(sci.anthropology.paleo) - Re: Savanna believers are stupid stupid stupid (Re: Ealine Morgan
... While horses, for example, have been shown to possess energetically optimal speeds ... may enable human hunters to pursue the prey animal at speeds that force it to run ... been the occupation of a new niche as a diurnal endurance predator. ... distances, and are able to run at high speeds for long distances to get to the ...
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