Transcript Apparent Motion of the Stars Picture Exercise

Apparent Motion of the Stars
Sample Exam Images from
• APOD
• TWAN
What direction was the camera pointed?
What can you say about the location the image was taken from?
Comet and colorful tails were imaged from Home Observatory in Mackay,
Queensland, Australia. In what direction was the camera facing when the
image was obtained?
The city imaged above is Cape Town, South Africa. What direction is the camera
facing? What hint is there in the photograph that you are not looking North?
What direction is the camera facing? What can you say about the location of the
image?
What can you tell me about where this image was taken and the direction that the
camera was facing?
This image was taken from Australia. What direction relative to the horizon are the
stars apparently moving?
The orange trail is a rocket launch as seen from Santa Cruz, California. What
direction is the camera facing?
Orion’s Belt lies very close to the Celestial Equator in this picture taken over Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil. What direction is the camera facing? What is the
approximate latitude of the image.
Rocket Launch from the Kennedy Space Center's Turn Basin. What direction is the
camera facing? What is the approximate latitude of the camera?
This image was submitted as evidence that a criminal suspect whose car appears
in the photo was in a drive-in movie theater in Bogotá, Columbia watching a film
at the time the crime was committed in Boston, MA. Is this alibi believable?
This image was taken from the rim of the Grand Canyon at about 36°latitude. How
could youi determine the angular FOV (i.e. angular width) of the image?
The peaceful
waters by a small
lakeside house
near Stuttgart,
Germany reflect
their graceful
arcing trails in this
composited series
of exposures.
What direction is
the camera
facing?
If I told you that this image was taken In Greece, in what direction was the camera
facing?
If I told you that this image was taken In New Zealand, in what direction was the
camera facing?
What direction are we looking in this image? Is there any way to resolve the
ambiquity in direction by examining the foreground scene?
This image was taken high in the Andes Mountains. What direction is the camera
facing?
What is the approximate latitude of this image ?
This image was allegedly taken at a star party at Sentinel Peak in Arizona
(32° N). What do you think?
This image was allegedly taken off the coast of Atlantic Ocean, Lüderitz,
Namibia. What do you think? What direction are we looking in?
Assume this image was taken in the Earth’s northern hemisphere. What direction are
we looking at and estimate the latitude of the location.