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Štefánik observatory - last 45 years seen by its employees
Studená, Lenka ; Vaněk, Miroslav (advisor) ; Petráš, Jiří (referee)
Main issues of this work are to describe the surrounding of Štefánik observatory and to extend knowledge about its wide history, specially the recent one. Cornerstones of this knowledge have become from interviews with the employees, who worked on Štefánik observatory during the normalization, possibly earlier; and some of them are still work there. The leading of the interviews was made by method of oral history. The work is based also on available bibliography, which concerns mostly to methodology; newspaper articles which relate to observatory history or important events. The text is primarily focused on interviews experiences and feelings and besides the work presents their testimony. In the text are worked up some topics, which concern to professional activity, relationships, perceptions of ages 1968 and 1989, and finally the projection the movies about Apollo programme. The goal of this work is not come to clear conclusions but to reflect experiences of interviewees into historical context, alternatively take a look into working life of Štefánik observatory employees. Keywords: Štefánik observatory, guide, astronomy, normalization, oral history, interview
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Thaddaeus Hagecius ab Hayek and His Contribution to the Renaissance in Bohemia
Karlík, Ondřej ; Veverková, Kamila (advisor) ; Lášek, Jan Blahoslav (referee)
The dissertation begins with an introduction about Renaissance, because Thaddaeus Hagecius lived and worked in this age. Renaissance was both an age of faith in hermetic sciences and an age of important scientific discoveries which fundamentally influenced the transformation of cosmology. My intention is to explain the characteristics of this period in the beginning of the dissertation. The next chapter is mainly focused on Hagecius's biography and an overview of his main writings. At first, I dealt with Hagecius's youth and his studies in Bohemia and foreign countries. Afterwards, I mentioned the areas that Hagecius had developed and the writings that he had published about them. I have more thoroughly expanded Hagecius's activity in medicine and astronomy because they were the main areas of his research. In another part of the chapter, I have outlined the friendship between Hagecius and Brahe. I have closed the chapter with an explanation of Hagecius's reference to alchemy. In the third chapter of my dissertation, I have introduced Hagecius's scientific efforts in four areas. These are as follow-astronomy, medicine, botany and brewing, because Hagecius contributed to these four areas with an interesting manner. These areas also show the huge diversity of Hagecius's interests.
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Creating e-learning course - Astronomy
LUKSCH, Tomáš
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to create learning materials for Astronomy taught at the faculties of education. Created materials will have form of presentations usable during lessons and more detailed texts designed for individual studies. Another element of the thesis is searching for additional resources also specialized in astronomy field.
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Night Sky on Mobile Device
Plešek, Jan ; Dittrich, Petr (referee) ; Koutný, Jiří (advisor)
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Menlo} This thesis describes concept and implementation of the application designed to observate the night sky in the simple and intuitive way using the concept of augmented reality. Based on the brief specification of the most widespread mobile operation systems, the iOS system was chosen as the implementation platform. The thesis describes methods to calculate the position of celestial objects based on the data gathered from GPS module, magnetometer and accelerometer. Stars, planets and other objects are rendered by the stereographic projection. The user can see celestial objects trough the mobile device display and control the direction of the view by positioning and turning the device. The application could be used for quick orientation in night sky during astronomical observation or educational purposes.
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Design of telescope
Hudáková, Kristína ; Paliatka, Peter (referee) ; Sládek, Josef (advisor)
The diploma thesis deals with a design solution of an astronomical mirror telescope, also called Newton reflector on the Dobson Altazimuth mount. The design focuses on the determination of appropriate optic parameters and mounting parameters, on the new styling and shape solution with an emphasis on technical, operational, ergonomic and aesthetic requirements. The main benefit of the design is the simplicity of compilation and decompilation of entire device, intuitive control and safe usage and shape compactness of the whole appliance. I designed the device in the light of the fact that it is used mainly in complete darkness, and the colour solution corresponds to the fact.
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The design of mechanical section of parallactic mounting
Wertheimer, Pavel ; Návrat, Tomáš (referee) ; Krejsa, Jiří (advisor)
The aim of the bachelor thesis is a constructional design of a simple parallactic mount as a functional prototype with the possibility of later production. The mount is intended for amateur astrophotography using digital reflex camera with telephoto lenses of shorter focal length (up to 200mm). Emphasis is put mainly on the portability of the mount that means low weight and small size. First part of the thesis covers possible constructional concepts and also deals with kinematics of the chosen variant. The second part deals with the problematic points of the mount itself. The outcome of the thesis is the design of the mount and its complete documentation. Owing to this it is possible to start realization of the functional prototype.
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Modern Trends in Geography Teaching on the 2nd stage of Primary Schools shown on "The Earth in Space"
STANĚK, Michal
The main aim of my thesis is to create a suggestion of my own teaching materials for teaching the topic "The Earth in Space" in the context of geography on the 2nd stage of Primary schools which includes not only workbook for students but also a methodological guide for teachers and additional outputs usable for an interactive whiteboard. The teaching text itself corresponds to the principles defined in the current educational documents. The theoretical part evaluates the significance and status of the material in the curriculum in the context of the Framework Educational Programme for Elementary Education and the school educational programmes of schools monitored. The next chapter is devoted to the didactic analysis of current educational textbooks and workbooks for the 2nd stage of Primary schools which includes the subject matter. The thesis also contains an overview of selected modern elements in the teaching of geography.
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