One of the long term goals of this project is to collect enough data to derive the orbit of Mars. However, because Kepler didn’t know the orbit of Earth, he couldn’t use the observation on any given night. Instead, he only used observations from when Mars was at opposition1. This happened to be last night, so we packed up the quadrant and headed out.
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