Super-Moon Photos and Facts

One of the super-moon photos is a humorous hoax. Can you spot it? We knew that ATI’s instructors are world-class experts. They are the best in the business, averaging 25 to 35 years of experience, and are carefully selected for their ability to explain advanced technology in a readily understandable manner. We did not know […]
One of the super-moon photos is a humorous hoax. Can you spot it? We knew that ATI’s instructors are world-class experts. They are the best in the business, averaging 25 to 35 years of experience, and are carefully selected for their ability to explain advanced technology in a readily understandable manner. We did not know that many are talented photographers. We challenged them to take some photographs of the November 13-14 super-moon.  See our previous post and then the resulting photographs. https://aticourses.com/blog/index.php/2016/11/13/get-your-camera-ready-super-moon-november-13-14/ Tom Logsdon, who teaches Orbital & Launch Mechanics – Fundamentals provided us some of the orbits key parameters. Here are the best, most appropriate, average orbital parameters for Earth’s. perigee radius: 363,300 Km (for the super-moon it was 356,508 Km (or 221,524 miles) apogee radius: 405,400 Km Inclination to the ecliptic plane: 5.145 deg (the plane containing the Earth and the moon) orbital eccentricity: 0. 0549 (sometimes quoted as 5.49 percent) recession rate from the Earth: 3.8 cm/yr Siderial month: 27.3 days Synodic month: 29.5 days ( the sidereal month is the time it takes for the moon to make one 360 deg trip around the earth; the synodic month is the month we observe from the spinning earth…it involves a few extra degrees of travel beyond the sidereal month) Dr. Peter Zipfel Shalimar, Florida

  Dr. Peter Zipfel

Six Degree of Freedom Modeling of Missile and Aircraft Simulations

Aerospace Simulations In C++

  James  Jenkins, Riva, MD

Sonar Signal Processing

 Matt Moran, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Engineering Systems Modeling with Excel / VBA

Thermal & Fluid Systems Modeling

  Matt Moran, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Richard Carande, Denver, CO

Fundamentals of Synthetic Aperture Radar

Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar

Richard Carande, Denver, CO

The photos that beat them all! Taken by the wife or Matt Moran