Re: Star Hopping

[Larry Smith <larry.smith@SNOW.EDU>]

At 12:08 PM -0600 10/9/02, Larry Smith wrote:
> You'd be surprised how well it works.  The laser pointer needs to be fairly
> high-powered, though.  With ours we can see the green spot on a hill a mile
> away.  The length of the beam as it points to a star gives students all the
> parallax they need.  They even find the green star pointer helpful when we
> use the binoculars.
>
> If you haven't tried one of these run, don't walk, to see one in action.
>
> Larry


In fact, it is 5 mW and you might be disappointed if the $130 version is
only a fraction of that power.

Larry

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