Table of Contents

  Introduction

bullet General Info
bullet Write-A-Lab Worksheet

  Observational Exercises

bullet The Celestial Sphere
bullet Constellation Photography
bullet Color of the Stars
bullet Photographing Stellar Spectra
bullet Stellar Distances
bullet The Solar Constant
bullet Observing the Moon
bullet Observing the Planets
bullet Observing Deep Sky Objects

  Laboratory Exercises

bullet Geometric Optics
bullet Spectroscopy
bullet Meteorites
bullet Light, Energy and Motion

  Computer Exercises

bullet Analysis of Constellation Images
bullet The Moons of Jupiter
bullet Classification of Stellar Spectra
bullet Energy Processes in the Sun
bullet Stars in the Pleiades
bullet The Hubble Constant
bullet Hubble Data Sheet

  Appendices
bullet Glossary
bullet Math Help
bullet Star Maps I 
bullet Star Maps II
bullet Messier Objects
bullet Images

 

 

 

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