Preparation for Lab

You will need to collect some information before we can observe the sun at the UMRAO. There will not be very much time to collect data on-site for each group, and the following parameters need to be determined ahead of time.

Local Date: 2003 April 16

Local Time: 3:00p, 3:15p, 3:30p, 3:45p, 4:00p, 4:15p, 4:30p, 4:45p, 5:00p

UT Date:

UT Time:

Local Sidereal Time:

Solar Right Ascension: (HHMMSST)

Solar Declination: (sDDMMSS)

dRA/dt in units of 0.1sec/hr:

dDec/dt in units of "/hr:

Useful Reference: Astronomical Almanac/Nautical Almanac

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