Astro205

[sexualbanana]

Anybody taking that damn course with the boring-ass monotone prof Taylor??

[MM99lude]

yup right here! horrible... i havent been in 2 months

[MM99lude]

have you been doing the observing assignment?

[sexualbanana]

Sort of, but I lost my sheet. So I had to make up some numbers. And I fucked up my very first measurement.

[Marsh]

I'm in that class too, i've taken all the measurements
Its a pretty easy assignment actaully

[sexualbanana]

I say we share some measurements. I only have 5 measurements.

[Marsh]

How do you want to share?

[MM99lude]

ya man i havent got any cuz i fucked up the set up, and my numbers are waayyy off:banghead:


any help would be greatly appreciated!

[sexualbanana]

Here are mine

Stick Length is 30cm.

Feb 27. Sunrise: 7:25am Sunset: 6:12pm
Measurement: 29cm Taken at 11:00am.

I have no idea why but the measurement for Feb 27 is REALLY off

Mar 9. If someone can find the sunrise-sunset times for that day it would be great
Measurement: 37cm Taken at 11:37am.

Mar 20. Sunrise: 6:37am Sunset: 6:50pm
Measurement: 35cm Taken at 11:30am

Mar 27. Sunrise: 6:21am Sunset 7:01pm
Measurement: 34cm Taken at 11:50am

Apr 3. Sunrise: 6:06am Sunset: 7:13pm
Measurement: 32cm Taken at :11:45am

[Marsh]

I have two measurements a week starting from the first week of February, and all the angles and whatnot but its too much to write up here...PM or just post i can try to help you out

[sexualbanana]

If you can just share a couple from January and February. Please and thank you. :D

[sexualbanana]

Questions 4a and 4b are kinda confusing though.

How would I be able to tell from my observations when spring equniox will be? I assume I just look at the measurements slowly decreasing over time, meaning spring is coming soon. And I figure daylight savings time means something good for spring.

4b is worse. I have no idea how to do that.

[Marsh]

Feb06: Stick =1.21 m, shadow=2.06m, declination angle of -14.4, Sunrise=803AM, sunset=538pm

Feb18th: stick=1.21m, shadow=1.98m declinatin angle= -11.68, sunrise=741AM, sunset=600pm

feb28th:Stick=1.21m, shadow=2.10m angle = -9.42, sunrise=723AM, sunset=615

I think i fucked upt he last one though, those are the feb ones i have
sorry for the last minute post though!

[Marsh]

ok for 4a, you know that a spring equinox means that day and night have equal time(day is 12 hours, night is 12 hours) so from your data i guess you just have to guess ~ when that would be, i havent graphed my stuff yet so i dont know what the graphs look like. For 4b, im pretty sure the higest declination the sun could reach is 90, b/c in the summer @ noon the sun is basically right overhead of you...from the numbers i gathered it looks like its follwing that trend so im goin ahead with that
Hope that helped

[Marsh]

^-- oh yeah they were all taken at noon give or take a minute:D

[sexualbanana]

How'd you get -14 degrees? I keep doing the calcs and I keep getting -8.75

[Marsh]

i think i converted inches to cm wrong for tat first one, just never botherd fixing it

[MM99lude]

hey Marsh thanks for the numbers you really saved my ass! If u need them back just pm me and i can meet u when u are free!

Mike

[Marsh]

No problem man anytime

[Marsh]

oh yeah btw...any of you guys finished assignment #4?

[sexualbanana]

Originally posted by Marsh
oh yeah btw...any of you guys finished assignment #4?

HA! I didn't even know there was an assigment until Friday. :D

[Marsh]

lol

[MM99lude]

assignment 4! shit!!! i'm sooo screwed

[sexualbanana]

Why are his assigment questions so goddamn hard?

Anyone else notice that the book doesn't directly answer the questions on assignment?