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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.

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Re: Catching cosmic rays with a camera 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. Posted - Tue Nov 10, 2009 11:39 pm	Dr Michael Inglis inglism@... Send Email
Re: Catching cosmic rays with a camera Chris Anderson asked, "I'm curious: How can one distinguish between a cosmic ray hit and random thermal noise? Don’t they both produce a single bright Posted - Tue Nov 10, 2009 11:39 pm	Kendra Sibbernsen ksibbern Offline Send Email
Re: [Astrolrner@CAE] Doldrums 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 Posted - Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:56 pm	Pendzick pendzira Offline Send Email
Re: Catching cosmic rays with a camera 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 Posted - Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:55 pm	Chris Anderson cja31497 Offline Send Email
Re: Catching cosmic rays with a camera 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 Posted - Mon Nov 9, 2009 3:08 pm	Kendra Sibbernsen ksibbern Offline Send Email
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