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(DC) Modern Eddington Experiment 2024
7/11/2022 | 3:40 PM to 4:40 PM
Room: CC: Grand Gallery C
Moderator: William Dittrich / Co-Organizer:
Session Code: DC | Submitting Committee: Committee on Space Science and Astronomy / Co-Sponsoring Committee:
The Modern Eddington Experiment was successfully performed during the 2017 total eclipse by Portland Community College (PCC) students in Oregon under the guidance of Richard Berry at his Alpaca Farm Observatory. The second successful attempt in 2017 was performed by Don Bruns in Wyoming, and his success was the most accurate Eddington Experiment ever performed yielding the Einstein Coefficient of 1.75 exactly with an error of 3%. Now, PCC's Toby Dittrich is organizing an attempt in Mexico during the upcoming April 2024 eclipse which will potentially gather thousands of data points instead of the usual tens of data points. With the potential of having as many as twelve telescope stations, each gathering images of 1000 stars, the 2024 experiment could become one of its own in the front of the list of historic Eddington Experiments. Now, there is plenty of time for you to join in this effort to involve your students in the measurement of the curvature of space. This Topical Session will discuss what is needed in terms of equipment and procedures, so that our world class experts Richard Berry and Don Bruns can assist us in this execution of the Modern Eddington Experiment. PCC now has acquired four telescopic stations for use and there is room at the fabulous site in Mexico, exactly on centerline at the point of maximum eclipse, for eight more stations. I hope you can join in this exciting and historic effort to promote the use of the Eddington Experiment in the Advanced Lab curriculum at many colleges/universities in the future.
(DC) Modern Eddington Experiment 2024
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