[BA-Rockets] altitude tracking at DeAnza

[William Chops Westfield]

You know, if "the kids" are doing altitude tracking just to find out how
high their rockets are going, setting them up with two tracking positions
and theodilites or eqivilent, and software to do the analysis, is a fine
thing.  But if someone is hoping that they'll pick up a little of the math
and trig involved, I think they'd be a lot better off sticking with single
station tracking (and a known basline is still a good idea.

Both the LUNAR and BAYNAR sites have lovely [sic] fixed fixtures like curbs
and lampposts.  I don't think we need to mark up the pavement at all.  All
we need is reasonably accurate measurements from a couple of easilly
identifiable locations ("this lampost", "this square of sidewalk", "this
storm drain") to each possible pad...  The distances won't be nice round
numbers, but that doesn't matter, does it?

BillW