ASTR 1101 Chapter : HW1answers
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For august 2011 apods, i chose the one titled the snows of paranal on 11 august 2011. Part of the reason is that i had two friends who were snowed in to the top of the mountain during the same snow storm. Part of the reason is that i spent a few hours in the game" of trying to play at. Forensic astrophotography", where i tried to use the information in the picture alone to deduce the exact year, month, date, hour, minute, latitude, and longitude of the picture. I got the date right to the nearest 3 days, the hour and minute correct to the nearest 5 minutes, the latitude correct to the nearest 1 , and the longitude correct to the nearest 3 . The star chart on page s-9 shows the sky overhead {from mid-northern latitudes} for 9 pm in late.
