Classroom Activities

Lech Mankiewicz <lech@theta1.cft.edu.pl>, HOU TRA in Poland, reports that Polish HOU has prepared an English version of the "Webcam Astronomy in School" manual. It can be downloaded from http://www.cft.edu.pl/~tomsow/ccd/ccd_obs/ccd_en.pdf

Activities from HOU teacher/TRA Dane Toler:

• Comparing Magnitudes
• Image Info

Activities fromHOU teacher/TRA Harlan DeVore:

• The Mass of Jupiter Project
• Titan Project Project by Cape Fear High School students to find the mass and density of Saturn. Orbital data for Titan and Rhea were obtained for 19 images using HOU-IP. An Excel spreadsheet was used to fit a sine curve to the moons' data to determine their orbital periods and orbital radii. These values were then used to find Saturn's mass.
• Io Project by Cape Fear High School students to find the mass of Jupiter. Orbital data for Io was obtained from images using HOU-IP. An Excel spreadsheet was used to fit a sine curve to Io data to determine its orbital period and orbital radius. These values were then used to find Jupiter's mass.

Activity from HOU teacher Fred Page:

• Apogee/Perigee: Using Geometery to Investigate the Moon and Its Orbit