TheSkySearchers

Graeme1858 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 30, 2023 9:22 am 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days most people just rely on everything coming off the shelf or being able to google an online resource and I'm just outdated.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

Fun in spite of my moribund performance

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