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The Personal Computer for Teaching Astronomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

R. Andreoni ,
G. Forti  and
P. Ranfagni
R. Andreoni
Affiliation:
Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, 50125 Firenze, Italy
G. Forti
Affiliation:
Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, 50125 Firenze, Italy
P. Ranfagni
Affiliation:
Istituto di Astronomia dell’Università di Firenze

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The two interactive software packages, which we called ASTRONOMIA 1 and ASTRONOMIA 2 (in the following Al and A2) and developed for a personal computer under MS-DOS, are primarily intended to be used in junior-high and high schools as tools for teaching astronomy. With the help of these programs and using the sky as a laboratory, the teacher can explain the most difficult parts of the astronomical geography: time and coordinates. Very few schools in Italy own the necessary educational tools such as a small planetarium, a sidereal clock, an oriented celestial sphere, etc.

We tried to exploit the capability of a personal computer to visualize and to present the results of a calculation as diagrams and tables. A limited interaction permitted by the programs allows the user to compare the results with other computations.

Type
5. Computers
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 105: The Teaching of Astronomy , 1990 , pp. 171 - 174
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

References

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