Mapping the Motion of Jupiter in the Sky
Follow the instructions in the Mapping the motion of a planet in the sky lab. For Jupiter in Spring 2004, you will need a 200% blow-up of the SC001 star chart (the long one) around the region of Leo. Observe the position of Jupiter every week.
NOTE! Do not record your Jupiter observations on the chart long which reads "SC001 Constellation Chart" at the top! Record them on the 200% blow-up of that chart, which you were given the first day in class! You will be docked points for recording your observations on the long chart.
Start Date: No later than the week of Feb. 23. By then, Jupiter will be up and available for observation during the time of the lab meetings. Before that date, you will need to wait until later in the night to observe Jupiter. You will get better results at the end of the term if you start earlier and get a couple of late-night measurements of Jupiter before the "official" start date.
Due Dates: The lab needs to be completed on April 23, when your whole observing log is turned in. On March 26, you will turn in a lab report with steps 1-4 of the Procedure and steps 1-3 of the Lab Writeup completed for those observations you have already done. Your first observation must be no later than February 27. By March 26, you must have completed four observations; observations must be spaced by at least 5 days but no more than 12 days. (Observations spaced by less than 5 days will not count as distinct observations toward the required four; doing all of your observations in the last week before the lab is due won't cut it!) By April 23, you must have completed at least eight observations each spaced by 5-12 days. If you take more than the required number of observations, it is OK if they are less than the 5 days apart from each other; indeed, this extra data will only help improve the quality of your results!