kitchen table math, the sequel: the sun, the moon, and the stars at instructivist

Thursday, July 26, 2007

the sun, the moon, and the stars at instructivist

Incredibly cool post at Instructivist!

C. & Ed are going to love it.

While you're there, be sure to read his post on the NY Regents History exam, too. The suffragette question reminds me of Celebrity Jeopardy.
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5 comments:

Instructivist said...

I am excited myself about these images even though Betelgeuse and Antares make me dizzy. Thanks for posting. (For some reason, the link to my post doesn't work. Google idiosyncracy?)

A bit of esoterica about the name Betelgeuse. It is a faulty transcription from the Arabic. Apparently, the first letter should have been a Y but the transcriber overlooked a dot in the Arabic letter (bad eyesight?) which turned it into a B.

I thought you might want to know (grin).

July 26, 2007 at 7:26 PM
Instructivist said...

Arghh!

Transcription should have been transliteration.

July 26, 2007 at 7:39 PM
Catherine Johnson said...

I'll fix it - thanks!

(Usually I check links ----)

Yes, those images are incredible.

July 27, 2007 at 6:09 AM
Catherine Johnson said...

Should be working now.

July 27, 2007 at 6:11 AM
Catherine Johnson said...

wow

I just looked at the sequence.

(working too fast last night to study it)

I actually didn't know Mars was so small compared to the Earth.

And looking at the sun compared to Sirius, Pollux, etc.---

July 27, 2007 at 6:12 AM

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