#introtoastro — Public Fediverse posts

I have found almost all of @Physicsj ‘s videos well worth a watch, and I use several of his animations in my classroom. A good #IntroToAstro resource!

From: @wonderofscience
https://mastodon.social/@wonderofscience/114072960076129679

Been awhile since I added to #IntroToAstro, so: the glorious and informative graphics of H. F. Stevance at https://www.hfstevance.com/graphics

A conversation here reminded me of another useful #IntroToAstro resource, if you want to see how much danger Earth might be in from low-flying rocks. A lot of careful modeling went into the “Impact: Earth!” calculator at https://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEarth/. For a less bare-bones presentation (such as when I want to impress a class), there’s a version at https://www.purdue.edu/impactearth/.

For an early #FollowFriday, may I suggest @PhETsims for a long and growing list of animations and simulations useful in #scicomm and science teaching? I use their work when #ITeachPhysics or #ITeachAstronomy; I mentioned them as a great resource in my #IntroToAstro posts. Give them a follow!

So, I happen to think that #Astronomy is very keen, and I love it and will talk about it rather a lot. There are probably thousands of other people who have posted information and explainers and resources, but just in case some folks haven’t seen those, I’d like to post some #IntroToAstro recommendations and resources.

One of my first recommendations tends to be Stellarium (https://stellarium.org/). It’s free! It’s like having a planetarium on your computer! There’s a simpler web version!