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Cheesy Pie wrote:

EASTstroudsburg13 wrote:Yeah, it depends on the school. Personally, I started Division C in 9th grade. Wolfy, if you think Reach is harder this year, I can guarantee you it'll get harder than that in Astronomy, if you plan on doing it eventually.

Meh, for me, astronomy-related events are EXTREMELY easy. Summer before 7th grade, I was absolutely obsessed with astronomy. Also, is there a really major theme this year?

I think you'll enjoy Astronomy then. From what I've seen, people either love it or dread it, and the people who love it tend to be the ones that do better.

The only major theme is that it's stellar astronomy, whereas Solar System is planetary astronomy. That's really the theme as it rotates between the two. Other than that, Reach tends to be pretty broad, reaching (hehe) to all different areas of astronomy.

EASTstroudsburg13 wrote:

Cheesy Pie wrote:

EASTstroudsburg13 wrote:Yeah, it depends on the school. Personally, I started Division C in 9th grade. Wolfy, if you think Reach is harder this year, I can guarantee you it'll get harder than that in Astronomy, if you plan on doing it eventually.

Meh, for me, astronomy-related events are EXTREMELY easy. Summer before 7th grade, I was absolutely obsessed with astronomy. Also, is there a really major theme this year?

I think you'll enjoy Astronomy then. From what I've seen, people either love it or dread it, and the people who love it tend to be the ones that do better.

The only major theme is that it's stellar astronomy, whereas Solar System is planetary astronomy. That's really the theme as it rotates between the two. Other than that, Reach tends to be pretty broad, reaching (hehe) to all different areas of astronomy.

I took a peek at an astronomy test on the test exchange. Its going to be an event I'm looking forward to in C division, I knew more than I thought I would.

And anyway.... No Galaxies? ....

Last year there were four topics - ID, stevolution, galaxies, and clusters. This year there is ID, stevolution, and wave info. :S *Optics*

Optics! Oh man, this means this will be even better this year.
Also, anyone notice that we have to do radiation laws as well?

foreverphysics wrote:Optics! Oh man, this means this will be even better this year.
Also, anyone notice that we have to do radiation laws as well?

I learned more about optics this summer from studying astronomy than I ever knew doing the Optics event for the last two years... And what do you mean by radiation laws? That's kind of a broad term...?

havenbro wrote:

foreverphysics wrote:Optics! Oh man, this means this will be even better this year.
Also, anyone notice that we have to do radiation laws as well?

I learned more about optics this summer from studying astronomy than I ever knew doing the Optics event for the last two years... And what do you mean by radiation laws? That's kind of a broad term...?

Radiation laws I would guess means Stefan-Boltzmann, Wien's Law, Inverse Square Law, LRT, etc. Nothing too difficult like Planck's Radiation Law - that's at the limit for Astronomy, and if they expect you to know it in Reach (aside from perhaps knowing what it is) I'd be very surprised indeed.

AlphaTauri wrote:

havenbro wrote:

foreverphysics wrote:Optics! Oh man, this means this will be even better this year.
Also, anyone notice that we have to do radiation laws as well?

I learned more about optics this summer from studying astronomy than I ever knew doing the Optics event for the last two years... And what do you mean by radiation laws? That's kind of a broad term...?

Radiation laws I would guess means Stefan-Boltzmann, Wien's Law, Inverse Square Law, LRT, etc. Nothing too difficult like Planck's Radiation Law - that's at the limit for Astronomy, and if they expect you to know it in Reach (aside from perhaps knowing what it is) I'd be very surprised indeed.

I'd be surprised if they decided to put some of those laws in RFTS, that's the kind of thing I think about with astronomy, and it doesn't really fit with the event..

Hi, this my first year in science olympiad. My older sister did it, but she hated RFTS. Any tips? or good websites? I've been having trouble finding good pictures with the stars and deep sky objects and constellations drawn out on the web, help is much appreciated!!!

slytherin wrote:Hi, this my first year in science olympiad. My older sister did it, but she hated RFTS. Any tips? or good websites? I've been having trouble finding good pictures with the stars and deep sky objects and constellations drawn out on the web, help is much appreciated!!!

The wiki. Also, Alpha's and syo's blog, http://onwardtotheedge.wordpress.com.
And speaking of the Wiki, I've updated it for 2013, but I haven't had time got out in specific info yet. So anyone who could help me out with that...

i can't find the evolutionary stage of NGC 281 anywhere, does anyone know a good site to find evolutionary stages?