Thanks, Gary. I must mention here that the Moon activity is one of my favorites.
Having been an astronomy buff, I can understand what the modern sky does to the activity. At times, even Sirius is not visible where I live, where a couple of decades back I and my friends could spot Andromeda or so we believed :)! The polluted sky is probably more assertive here in Delhi ! >> The above project uses a mounting bracket that attaches the monocular firmly to the XO so it is easier to aim. Thanks for this very useful info, will try it if I can get hold of a monocular here. Thanks, Jv >> P.S. I have a collection of Moon test images I should really go upload to the wiki soon... Will look out for them! I am sure I would like to help in anyway if I can with this! :) On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Gary Martin <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Jv, > > On 23 Nov 2012, at 11:57, RJV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > This looks like a great activity to me. I am unable to find what kind of > telescopes (in India) can be used and help to this effect on the downloads > page as a Readme would be very helpful. > > > > Has anybody used a physical telescope with this activity and what type? > Thanks for any response. > > Have a look at the learning resources pdf at: > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Moon#Learning_Resources > > This covers research into a low cost monocular project that Telescope > activity was originally aimed at. For Moon observing I have had fair > success using a Brunton 10-30x21 monocular. It can be carefully held > against the XO bezel over the camera, but that's quite hard work to keep > everything still and pointed at the correct location ;) The above project > uses a mounting bracket that attaches the monocular firmly to the XO so it > is easier to aim. For imaging planets (e.g Jupiter/Saturn with moons) that > monocular does not quite get enough light into the camera to show the > moons, though I do have a light polluted sky here so you might manage > better. > > You might also like this shot Sameer Verma tweeted recently: > > https://twitter.com/sameerverma/status/271428793476980736/photo/1 > > Regards, > --Gary > > P.S. I have a collection of Moon test images I should really go upload to > the wiki soon... > > > Jv > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Simon Schampijer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > Am 20.11.2012 um 06:23 schrieb Martin Langhoff < > [email protected]>: > > > > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Chris Leonard > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> As I recall, this activity was already renamed once from xoscope after > > >> it became clear it was colliding in name space with an oscilloscpe > > >> activity. > > > > > > Renames are a pain in infrastructure, and in upgrade handling for > users. > > > > > > I would say prefer to retain the current name until there's an > > > overwhelming case for change. > > > > > > > Agreed. A rename should be well thought through. If you do it, agreed > with what Chris said, please use a cerb. > > > > Thanks, > > Simon > > > > > > > cheers, > > > > > > > > > > > > m > > > -- > > > [email protected] > > > [email protected] -- Software Architect - OLPC > > > - ask interesting questions > > > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > > > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Devel mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > > > > > > -- > > Regards, > > > > Ravichandran Jv > > http://ravichandranjv.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > -- Regards, Ravichandran Jv http://ravichandranjv.blogspot.com
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