Why every observatory needs a disco ball
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2024

Commercial disco balls provide a safe, effective and instructive way of observing the Sun. We explore the optics of solar projections with disco balls, and find that while sunspot observations are challenging, the solar disk and its changes during eclipses are easy and fun to observe. We explore the disco ball's potential for observing the moon and other bright astronomical phenomena.

the Sun

pinhead mirrors

solar eclipses

pinhole optics

informal learning

astronomy

Författare

Robert Cumming

Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Onsala rymdobservatorium

Alexander Pietrow

Leibniz-Institut Für Astrophysik Potsdam

Livia Pietrow

Universiteit Leiden

Maria Cavallius

Stockholms universitet

Dominique J.M. Petit dit de la Roche

Université de Genève

Casper Pietrow

Universiteit Leiden

Ilane Schroetter

Universite Paul Sabatier Toulouse III

Moa Skan

Stockholms universitet

Physics Education

0031-9120 (ISSN) 13616552 (eISSN)

Vol. 59 2 025012

Ämneskategorier

Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi

Infrastruktur

Onsala rymdobservatorium

DOI

10.1088/1361-6552/ad1fa0

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Senast uppdaterat

2024-02-22