The Dutch Observatory

July 20, 2016 on 4:06 pm | In Outreach | Comments Off

The Astronomical League’s Analemma Program. After taking measurements for a year, I finished the project in April, and did submit my results after I completed the write up, produced the graphs, and made the calculations.  The purpose of the project is to calculate, based only on the data you collected, the latitude of where you are, the tilt of the Earth, as well as the eccentricity of the orbit of our Earth around the Sun. On June 7th I was informed that I had met the requirements for the project. But not for the first time, the AL managed to spell my name incorrect on the certificate, so today I did receive the corrected version and I can close the book on this project.