Celestial CoordinatesWerkzeuge
Launch the experiment and check in the tab "Location" whether
date, time and location are correctly derived from the timer
module and the GPS sensor.
In the tab "RA-->HA" you may enter the right ascension (RA) of a
celestial object and read out the hour angle (HA). The HA specifies
the time after culmination of the object at your location.
In the tab "POINTER" you get the declination and RA of the direction
the long edge of your phone is pointing to. The orientation
measurement is based on the magnetic field (and other sensors).
Hence keep the phone reasonably far from magnetic materials.
But even then the measurements may be inaccurate! Sometimes the
accuracy improves with time or if you move the phone around and
put it back into position.
In this version of Celestial Coordinates the POINTER-functionality
only works on android. It may work on ios as well using future
versions of phyphox.
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