[Sugar-devel] Renaming the Telescope activity to Scope

[Gary Martin]

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,
> >
> >
> >
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