Orientation: Basics of Astronomy
Basics of Astronomy. Participants should leave with ability to evaluate the astronomy as a serious hobby. It's for total beginners and uses no fieldtrips (although some could be arranged separately).
Location: Harood's Cafe
19 ElKoroom Street, Mohandessin.
IMPORTANT NOTE: I can only take 5 participants, and it will be on first-come-first-served basis. Reservation is strictly on email and I will confirm attendance as soon as I have number completed.
CONTENTS:
1-Structure of the Universe: brief orientation on what is the Big Bang and it's likely relation to entities from clusters to meteorites.
2-Coordinates: language of astronomers for locations of celestial
bodies as observed from Earth. If you don't know how to handle
Coordinates, then you don't speak the language of serious hobbyists.
3-Software: where to find what? Maps of the sky are extremely
dynamic and seasonal and only a software can predict exact locations of Celestial Bodies at certain time. OBLIGATORY.
REQUIRED READINGS:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SaharaSafaris/message/8405
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SaharaSafaris/message/8412
(questions allowed on SaharaSafaris Forum about anything in the readings)
