Department of Physics

University of Durham

Level One

1. Aims of the Experiment

The specific aims for the experiment are:

1. To introduce stellar motions.
    
2. To introduce Barnard's star.
    
3. To briefly discuss the astronomer's co-ordinate system.
    
4. To measure the proper motion of Barnard's star by using old archival scanned photographs.
    
5. To derive the position of Barnard's star from a recent CCD image taken at Durham.
    
6. To undertake some basic analysis of the results.
    

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