Database of solar events observed from the Plaza del Sol Archaeological Copan Ruins Park
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https://doi.org/10.5377/rct.v0i4.525Keywords:
Archaeoastronomy, solar observations, Archaeological Copan Ruins Park, databaseAbstract
The main objective of this work has been to design and form a database using photographic material collected between 1998 and 2008 by us as a group of Archaeoastronomy of the Central American Suyapa Astronomical Observatory of the National Autonomous University of Honduras. In this paper we describe the characteristics of the relational database containing 2.467 photographs and 8 attribute tables with dates and places where observations were made at sunrises and sunsets, or for different times of day from the size and direction of the shadows of Stela D, sundial of the Archaeological Copan Ruins Park. The use of Picasa3 open source software in combination with Excel spreadsheets easier for anyone, especially the community of researchers and scholars of Archaeoastronomy, use this information to understand how astronomical observations were made in Copan or to generate new lines of research in Archaeoastronomy.
Keywords: Archaeoastronomy; solar observations; Archaeological Copan Ruins Park; database.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/rct.v0i4.525
Revista Ciencia y Tecnología, No. 4, Segunda época, Junio 2009: 20-35
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