Using Stellarium to find distances to stars.
Channel: Chris McGinlay
Date: 2020-09-08

Showing how to set up stellarium-web.org for your location as well as then finding the distance information on individual stars.
There's also a very quick discussion of the idea of co-ordinate systems, not needed for the advanced higher course, but of use when discussing ideas of general relativity later.


0:12 Setting location and time
0:45 Changing the view from South to North
1:09 Stars we are looking for
1:27 Alkaid
1:48 Merak, Dubhe, Polaris
2:20 Equatorial co-ordinate grid. 

2:59 Right Ascension & Declination (RA/Dec)
3:37 Stellarium App (on linux)
4:20 American Dakota Indian Star Lore
4:48 Polaris