Welcome to the Center for Astronomy Education's (CAE's) academic discussion group for those interested in improving college-level astronomy teaching and learning.
This discussion group is moderated by Gina Brissenden, Program Director for CAE, at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory. In addition, CAE has a Guest Moderator program. CAE's current Guest Moderator is John Feldmeier at Youngstown State Univ. in Youngstown, Ohio.
A cosmic ray shower has a large footprint, so you could place several cameras over, say, a few square metres. They all would show the signal from a shower.
This may seem like the 'doldrums' for your classes, but it is the most important time for freshmen. It is now that they are making an silent evaluation of how
I'm curious: How can one distinguish between a cosmic ray hit and random thermal noise? Don't they both produce a single bright pixel (unless, as mentioned
I wanted to see if the number of hits that Roy and I have been seeing on our dark images was in the ballpark for the estimated number of cosmic ray hits per