Astr 1504: General Astronomy

Syllubus




The Celestial Sphere

  • Sky Maps
  • The Nearest Star: Proxima Centauri
  • Total Lunar Eclipse on Feb 21, 2008, 9:26pm CST
    • Celestial Mechanics
  • Kepler's Laws
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    		The Spectrum of Light
  • Parallax
  • The Magnitude Scale
  • The Wave Nature of Light
  • Diffraction
  • Airy's disc
  • Blackbody Radiation
  • The Quantization of Energy
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    The Interaction of Light and Matter
  • The Bohr Model
  • Wave-Particle Duality and Quantization
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    		Telescopes
  • Spherical Aberration
  • The World's Largest Optical Telescopes
  • Hubble Space Telescope
  • Resolution of Telescopes
  • Radio Telescope
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    Stars
  • Eclipsing Binaries
  • HR Diagrams
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  • Galaxies
  • Fun at Galaxy Zoo (help astronomers classify galaxies)
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    Cosmology: Science of the Universe
  • Cosmology 101
  • 2 MICRON ALL SKY SURVEY (2MASS)
  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey
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    Solar Planets
    Europa* Mars* What's New



    		Extrasolar Planets
  • Overview of Extrasolar Planets
  • Extrasolar Planet Searches * Number of Extrasolar Planets Discovered
  • Extrasolar Visions
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    Hubble Gallery