paper

Introduction to pinhole astronomy

arXiv:1107.0820

Abstract

The observation of the Sun with a pinhole in order to check the first and the second Kepler's law has been realized for high school students. The settling of the experiment in order to minimize the errors of measure has permitted to verify the Rayleigh formula for obtaining sharpest images given the diameter of the pinhole.

4 pages, 1 figure. Proc. of "Einstein 120" conference, Bishkek, Kyrgyzsthan, 12 September 1999