Renaming the Telescope activity to Scope

[RJV]

Thanks, Gary. I must mention here that the Moon activity is one of my
favorites.

Having been an astronomy buff, I can understand what the modern sky does to
the activity. At times, even Sirius is not visible where I live, where a
couple of decades back I and my friends could spot Andromeda or so we
believed :)! The polluted sky is probably more assertive here in Delhi !

>>  The above project uses a mounting bracket that attaches the monocular
firmly to the XO so it is easier to aim.
Thanks for this very useful info, will try it if I can get hold of a
monocular here.

Thanks,

Jv

>> P.S. I have a collection of Moon test images I should really go upload
to the wiki soon...
Will look out for them! I am sure I would like to help in anyway if I can
with this! :)


On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hi Jv,
>
> On 23 Nov 2012, at 11:57, RJV <jv.ravichandran at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > This looks like a great activity to me. I am unable to find what kind of
> telescopes (in India) can be used and help to this effect on the downloads
> page as a Readme would be very helpful.
> >
> > Has anybody used a physical telescope with this activity and what type?
> Thanks for any response.
>
> Have a look at the learning resources pdf at:
>
>     http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Moon#Learning_Resources
>
> This covers research into a low cost monocular project that Telescope
> activity was originally aimed at. For Moon observing I have had fair
> success using a Brunton 10-30x21 monocular. It can be carefully held
> against the XO bezel over the camera, but that's quite hard work to keep
> everything still and pointed at the correct location ;) The above project
> uses a mounting bracket that attaches the monocular firmly to the XO so it
> is easier to aim. For imaging planets (e.g Jupiter/Saturn with moons) that
> monocular does not quite get enough light into the camera to show the
> moons, though I do have a light polluted sky here so you might manage
> better.
>
> You might also like this shot Sameer Verma tweeted recently:
>
>         https://twitter.com/sameerverma/status/271428793476980736/photo/1
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>
> P.S. I have a collection of Moon test images I should really go upload to
> the wiki soon...
>
> > Jv
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Am 20.11.2012 um 06:23 schrieb Martin Langhoff <
> martin.langhoff at gmail.com>:
> >
> > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Chris Leonard
> > > <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> As I recall, this activity was already renamed once from xoscope after
> > >> it became clear it was colliding in name space with an oscilloscpe
> > >> activity.
> > >
> > > Renames are a pain in infrastructure, and in upgrade handling for
> users.
> > >
> > > I would say prefer to retain the current name until there's an
> > > overwhelming case for change.
> > >
> >
> > Agreed. A rename should be well thought through. If you do it, agreed
> with what Chris said, please use a cerb.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >    Simon
> >
> >
> > > cheers,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > m
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Regards,

Ravichandran Jv
http://ravichandranjv.blogspot.com
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