Step 2: Localizing your Targets, distance calculations.

To calibrate your telescope, you have to determine its position on a map and calculate its distance.

Task

• 2.1) Mark on the Stellar maps available at this Step Ressources the exact position of your Targets.
• 2.2) Measure the distance on the map in mm and transform it to Light years by using the equivalences written on the map.

Ressources

• Stellar Map of the Universe.
• Detailed map of the Milky Way.