The eyepieces have very small lenses.
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Observing with an Astroscan
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Observing with the 0.9-m
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Morning review of observing. Let's check those notes.
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Time for more cutting and taping - let's make a spectrometer.
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Be careful about how you put them together.
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Looking good.
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We can use just the diffraction grating.
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Eventually, we need to calibrate the spectrometer.
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It works.
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Setting up the skype call to Dr. Seth Redfield
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We start with introductions.
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There are lots of exoplanets.
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We took a lot of observations to make the first ground-based detection of an exoplanet atmosphere.
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WBOSS
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Marc Wetzel and the Dark Skies demo
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Dark Skies
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Dark Skies
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Paper strip model of solar system distances
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Exoplanet.eu
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The Hobby-Eberly Telescope
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HET mirror
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Dr Jim Fowler acts as tour guide.
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tracker
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It sure is big
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but, it can move in azimuth
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Walking past ROTSE
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Wayne Rosing and LCOGT
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LCOGT-Texas Headquarters
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Licensed to drive
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