JamesBradley

doing classical astronomy with webcams

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#JamesBradley

Doing classical precision astronomy with webcams and observatory site monitors.

Authors

  • David W. Hogg (NYU) (MPIA)

Acknowledgements

  • Dan Foreman-Mackey (NYU)
  • Markus Poessel (MPIA / HDA)

License

Copyright 2014 David W. Hogg. #JamesBradley is an open-source project released under the MIT License. See the file LICENSE for details.

Project goals

  • Measure the sidereal period.
  • Measure stellar aberration and determine the speed of light.
  • Detect the precession of the equinoxes.
  • Look for nutation and the Chandler wobble.
  • Create reusable code for other data sets.