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Using Stellarium to cyber-observe the Great American Eclipse

2017; American Association of Physics Teachers; Volume: 55; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1119/1.4999744

1943-4928

Ellie R. Prim, David J. Sitar,

Historical Astronomy and Related Studies

The Great American Eclipse is over. Somewhat sad, is it not? Individuals who were unable to experience the event on August 21, 2017, can now cyber-observe the eclipse with Stellarium (http://www.stellarium.org). In the authors’ opinion, it is fun and has many great applications in the classroom. In addition it is open source and available for Android, iOS, and Linux users. We here at Appalachian use it in our introductory astronomy labs for specific activities such as investigating coordinate systems, discovering differences between solar and sidereal days, as well as determining why your “astrological sign” is most often not your “astronomical sign.”