Ghideon Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 I cleared out some junk and stumbled upon an early attempt at doing “science” with math and observations to get some result. I used a cheap monocular to project a partial eclipse on a paper, the goal was to measure how much of the sun that was covered. I remember getting help with the math for intersecting circles, we had not done such geometry (yet) in school. Do you have any early memories from attempting something scientific? A fun aspect of this little experiment is that I think one can get decent precision even with cheap equipment. In the age of internet I might try to locate data* from this event and see what the real value was. But my skills at observational data administration seems to have been inadequate at that time . I have found no trace of when in the 90's the observation was made. *) I think time and date .com could be used for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dimreepr Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 On 7/29/2019 at 4:45 PM, Ghideon said: I cleared out some junk and stumbled upon an early attempt at doing “science” with math and observations to get some result. I used a cheap monocular to project a partial eclipse on a paper, the goal was to measure how much of the sun that was covered. I remember getting help with the math for intersecting circles, we had not done such geometry (yet) in school. Do you have any early memories from attempting something scientific? A fun aspect of this little experiment is that I think one can get decent precision even with cheap equipment. In the age of internet I might try to locate data* from this event and see what the real value was. But my skills at observational data administration seems to have been inadequate at that time . I have found no trace of when in the 90's the observation was made. *) I think time and date .com could be used for this. Science is a neat way to objectify us, and one day, it might... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Cuthber Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 On 7/31/2019 at 3:17 PM, dimreepr said: Science is a neat way to objectify us, and one day, it might... I, an object, object to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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