David Black’s Blog: The Spaced Out Classroom:
http://spacedoutclass.com/2012/12/07/the-parallax-method/
Location for the full lesson plan and project description, as well as how the Media Design and Astronomy students at Walden School of Liberal Arts helped to film the project.
NASA’s Imagine the Universe “Ask an Astronomer”:
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970415c.html
A good overview of methods for finding the distances to stars.
Windows to the Universe:
http://www.windows2universe.org/kids_space/star_dist.html
Brief description of the parallax and Cepheid variable methods.
Michael Richmond’s Physics 301 Lecture Notes:
http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/phys301/lectures/parallax/parallax.html
A more detailed description of parallax and an overview of the upcoming Gaia satellite, a successor to Hipparcos, which is scheduled to launch in 2013.
Prof. Richard Pogge’s Astronomy 162 Lecture Notes:
http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit1/distances.html
Good overview of parallax and how to do calculations.
Gaia Homepage:
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Gaia_overview
Follow up to the ESA Hipparcos satellite. It will launch this year and will measure the 3D position of one billion stars. 200 million will have their parallax measured to an accuracy 10 times higher than Hipparcos, or ten microarcseconds.
Universe at a Glance:
http://universeataglance.blogspot.com/2011/04/measuring-stellar-distances-for-stars.html
Excellent description of the methods used to find the distances to stars, including those beyond 1000 parsecs, including a bibliography for further information.
ABCs of Distance:
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/distance.htm
A good discussion of all of the techniques for finding the distances to stars and galaxies.
Space Telescope Science Institute:
http://hubblesite.org/about_us/public_talks/presentations/schaefer_2007_09_04.pdf
PDF file created by Gail Schaefer at the Space Telescope Science Institute with images and an overview of the distance ladder and how the distances to stars and galaxies are measured.
Kodak’s Website on the Endurance Expedition:
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/endurance/
Animated and interactive website on Frank Hurley’s amazing photographs of the expedition.
NOVA Online: Shackleton’s Voyage of Endurance:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/shackleton/
NOVA retraces the Endurance expedition, including the final land crossing of South Georgia Island.
“Surveying – A Life Without Limits”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-QufqAeFyM
YouTube Video on surveying occupations.
“Dreamworks: How 3D Movies Are Made”
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2363465,00.asp
Article in PC Magazine about how stereoscopic 3D movies are created.