TSS September 2023 "Spring has sprung " Quiz

[OzEclipse]

That was a great quiz Joe!

Keep them coming.

And congratulations to Sparweb.

Regards

Graeme

Thanks Graeme but I'll try to alternate hard/easy and I didn't think the last quiz was as hard as the results indicated. The first question is always a poll, everybody gets a tick on that regardless of answer. Then if people just guess and get 1/5 they'll get 2 more and that's 30%. So the par score most achieved of 30-40% is not much better than all guesses. My ideal is a par of 50-60% with high scores around 90-100%

I have a challenging quiz already written for November and an easy one marked up in the quiz editor and ready to release for October. I am trying to get away from space exploration questions, observational maths, and I never followed Raymond into Sci Fi Q's. Those three genres seem to be universally unpopular.

When I started in astronomy, there was no off the shelf software. When I was 16, I wrote a set of programming instructions for my Texas Instruments TI58c programmable calculator in 1979 that could calculate rise and set of any object from it's RA & DEC. A maths teacher helped me understand the spherical trigonometry. I guess these days most people just rely on everything coming off the shelf or being able to google an online resource and I'm just outdated.

Joe

[helicon]

Fun in spite of my moribund performance

[Gordon]

Thanks for doing all of this for us!
It's greatly appreciated!