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Measurement of the Solar Rotation Rate with Tracker
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Mario Belloni
The Measurement of the Solar Rotation Rate with Tracker Lab uses the Tracker video analysis tool to measure and analyze the motion of sunspots to determine the solar rotation rate. This lab uses 31 still images taken 1 day apart of the Sun.
Requires Tracker version 4.6 or greater. The zip file contains the lab instructions, the series of still images that will be made into a movie, and a sample Tracker file. Measurement of the Solar Rotation Rate with Tracker Lab is one of several Tracker models used to incorporate computational and video analysis techniques in introductory astronomy. Tracker, a video analysis program with dynamical modeling, is an Open Source Physics tool. Additional models and programs can be found by searching ComPADRE for Open Source Physics or Tracker. Please note that this resource requires at least version 1.5 of Java (JRE). 
3 supplemental documents are available
Instructions for Measurement of the Solar Rotation Rate with TrackerThis pdf file contains the instructions for using the Measurement of the Solar Rotation Rate with Tracker files. download 349kb .pdf Published: January 9, 2012 previous versions 
Measurement of the Solar Rotation Rate with Tracker LOW RESMeasurement of the Solar Rotation Rate with Tracker files using 512 x 512 lower resolution images for slower/older computers. The main document uses 1024 x 1024 images and therefore is a larger download and uses more memory in Tracker to run smoothly. download 6019kb .zip Published: June 13, 2012 previous versions
SDO Venus Transit MovieThis movie was generated by Tracker from individual images from the SDO satellite taken 90 minutes apart from June 1- June 10, 2012 download 4468kb .mov Published: July 25, 2012 previous versions
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