The Stereography of Constellations by use of the Microcomputer

Abstract

The author proposes to use the microcomputer as the learning tool of the constellations. The children usually understand the positions of consterations under the concept of a celestial sphere. But it's difficult to understand the distance of these constellations from the earth under the concept of a celestial sphere. Then, the author thought of the interesting method, that is, to understand the distance of constellations visually by use of stereograph drawn on the visual display terminal of microcomputer. The visual display terminal of microcomputer has excellent characters for drawing stereographic constellations, because of the high resolving power, the colour display and exactitude of positions of constellations. The author developed the stereography of constellations on the visual display terminal of microcomputer, which is some different from the stereography on the paper. This method seems to be applied to other learning materials.