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Is this photo shopped?

SPACE EXPLORATION UNIT Topic 4 – Bigger, Smarter Telescopes (pages )

Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 4945 

Unit Overview - Last Class recap – Any questions? Unit topicStatus 1 – Azimuth-altitude (+ activity) & models of solar system100% Complete 2 – Telescopes, elliptical orbits & universal gravitation100% Complete 3 – The Spectroscope & Doppler effect50% Complete 4 – Bigger telescopes and triangulation ( + activity)Today/tomorrow 5 – Radio telescopes 6 – Rockets, computers, hazards of space, microgravity, space stations, gravitational assist, CCD’s and satellites / GPS 7 – The Solar System 8 – People in Space

The Next Discoveries  1773, Sir William Herschel built a large reflecting telescope and discovers a new planet: Uranus!  He was an astronomer and musician (he composed 24 symphonies) !!!!  Worked with his sister who made many discoveries on her own.

Combining Telescopes  Using computers to combine images from >1 telescope  Acts like telescope the size of the distance between telescopes (greatly improves resolving power)  The Very Large Telescope (VLT) is operated by the European Southern Observatory in Chile

Keck telescope  On Hawaii  2007 photo of Uranus  See ring

NASA picture of the Milky Way’s Centre  This giant composite image has been taken by NASA's three Great Observatories (Hubble & Spitzer Space Telescopes and the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

Adaptive Optics  Why do the stars twinkle?  What is light pollution?  How to astronomers deal with air pollution?

How far away are the stars?  Astronomers use a method called triangulation to measure far away distances.  Parallax is a difference in apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight.

Triangulation  How do you triangulate?  You can find distance D to an object by knowing S and angles A & B (and then creating a scale drawing)  Why would you do this?

Example:  You are standing beside a lake, looking at a tree on an island. You need to know the distance to the tree but no means of measuring the distance directly.  Is there some other way you can estimate it? --- YES!!  By using a distance you know, you can calculate the unknown distance indirectly. Triangulation measures distance indirectly by creating an imaginary triangle between the observer and tree.  It is the same method that astronomers use to measure distances to celestial objects.  The figure below describes step by step how.  longer the baseline, the more accurate the results providing the angles work.

The process  If the real triangle and scale triangle have the same angles, then the ratio of triangle height to base is same for both.

Triangulating a star  The diameter of the Earth’s orbit is the baseline and we view the star from one point on the Earth 6 months apart (i.e. in December and then again in June), lining up the star to distant stars as the frame of reference.

How Big is big?  the astronomical unit: 1 AU is the distance from the Earth to the Sun = 150 million km  But the universe is so much larger than our solar system, So astronomers created the light year: the distance light travels in one year ( AU).  1 light year = 9.5 trillion km  Light travels at km/s (goes around the earth 7.4 times in 1 second)  The visible universe (from telescopes) has a diameter of 28 Billion light years

Practice:  Do the practice sheet “triangulation worksheet BLM 5-9” #1-3.    Assignment: Topic 4 Review # 1-5 p. 392   Complete your vocab for Topic 4 