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Mercury Transit
Duration: November 2019
Members: Alex Klein, Adam Kenet, Brian Wang, Gavin Frezenko, Jeremy Schwartz
Utilizing the telescope atop the Bloomberg building, we photographed the event on Monday morning 11/11 from approximately 7:30am - 1:00pm. After analyzing the images and comparing them to GONG solar imagery. we calculated the distance from the Sun to Earth with the images! By comparing the paths and angles of Mercury from 5 different telescopes, we calculated the distance between the planet and Earth to be 173 million km, a 17% error off of the actual 148 million km value.
Members: Alex Klein, Adam Kenet, Brian Wang, Gavin Frezenko, Jeremy Schwartz
Utilizing the telescope atop the Bloomberg building, we photographed the event on Monday morning 11/11 from approximately 7:30am - 1:00pm. After analyzing the images and comparing them to GONG solar imagery. we calculated the distance from the Sun to Earth with the images! By comparing the paths and angles of Mercury from 5 different telescopes, we calculated the distance between the planet and Earth to be 173 million km, a 17% error off of the actual 148 million km value.
Asteroid Search
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Duration: September 2018 - December 2019
Members: Alex Klein, Lindsay Wiser, Kevin Rao, Adam Kenet, Neha Sangana, Brian Wang, Daniel Okereke, Everette Xu The International Asteroid Search Collaboration (IASC) provides image sets to citizen scientists to search for asteroids. After four campaigns, SEDS members successfully reported on 43 main belt asteroids discoveries. |
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