Astronomy lab project idea

[enayalogi]

Hello. I am a junior in college majoring in physics, minoring in astronomy. I am taking an astronomy lab class this semester. Once a week, we will visit an observatory and use a big telescope to collect data, analyze it, write a report, and present it at the end of the semester. The project can be related to astrometry, photometry, or spectroscopy.

I am interested in celestial mechanics/astrodynamics and kinda want to do something about it. Right now, an object that is on my mind is Jupiter/Saturn or their moons since they are pretty bright (we expect the sky condition to be bad most of the time at the observatory, and I do not want to risk try observing dim objects). Do you have any ideas for a project (whether using Jupiter, the moons, or anything like exoplanets or variable stars and clusters) that is cool and feasible (can be done if we have 3-4 nights of good data)? I want to include this in my CV when I apply to astrophysics grad school as well. (I am 99% going into that direction moving forward.) Thank you so much in advance!

[enayalogi]

On 9/14/2022 at 9:03 PM, enayalogi said:

Hello. I am a junior in college majoring in physics, minoring in astronomy. I am taking an astronomy lab class this semester. Once a week, we will visit an observatory and use a big telescope to collect data, analyze it, write a report, and present it at the end of the semester. The project can be related to astrometry, photometry, or spectroscopy.

I am interested https://routerlogin.uno/ in celestial mechanics/astrodynamics and kinda want to do something about it. Right now, an object that is on my mind is Jupiter/Saturn or their moons since they are pretty bright (we expect the sky condition to be bad most of the time at the observatory, and I do not want to risk try observing dim objects). Do you have any ideas for a project (whether using Jupiter, the moons, or anything like exoplanets or variable stars and clusters) that is cool and feasible (can be done if we have 3-4 nights of good data)? I want to include this in my CV when I apply to astrophysics grad school as well. (I am 99% going into that direction moving forward.) Thank you so much in advance!

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