Class Resources:

• Office Hours
  • MW: 1:50-2:50
  • WF: 9:10-10:10
  • R:9:40-11:10,2:10-3:30  
• Online sites for
  • SkyChartIII
  • SOS Math (Lots of math relationships and help)
• Class Documents
  • Syllabus
  • Math Baseline Skills , Solution
  • Sky Knowledge and Project:
    • Descriptions 
    • Project idea list 
    • Project Table 
  • Sky Chart for HW 2 (big: 2MB)
  • Exam 1 Review Guide
  • Exam 2 Review Guide
  • Exam 3 Review Guide
  • New material on final Review Guide
  • Exercises
    • Scale of things 
    • Angular Measure  (1/14/09)
    • Celestial Sphere and Star Positions and Motions (1/16/09)
    • Seasonal Stars  (1/23/09) 
    • Moon Phases  (1/30/09)
    • Planet Motion  (2/06/09)  Planet Data
    • Keplers Laws Orbit Graph(2/09/09)
    • Inverse Square
    • Spectroscopy & Doppler Effect  Solution
    • Parallax Exercise 
• Animations/Applets from Class
  • Part 1
    • Celestial Sphere
    • Lunar Phase Applet
    • Ptolemaic Solar System model
    • Retrograde motion
    • Galileo's Notes on Jupiters moons
    • Keplers Second Law
    • Newtons Cannon
    • Binary Star Applet
    • Feather Hammer drop on moon
    • Basic Transverse Wave properties
    • Basic Longitudinal Wave properties
    • Plane wave applet
    • Wave from Accelerating charge (Electric field only)
    • Electromagnetic wave (shows Electric and Magnetic fields)*
    • EM Waves
    • Spectroscopy of elements
    • Atlas of emission spectra of the elements
    • Star spectra, temperature, blackbody, absorption lines
    • Emission,absorption, other spectra
    • HST spectrum of M42 
    • Doppler Effect on star spectrum 
    • Doppler Effect in binary star system
    • Optics Applet 
    • Active vs Adaptive optics
    • Very Long Baseline Radio Interferometry
    • LIGO (gravity wave observatory): http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/, Einstein@home
    • Super Kamiokande (neutrino observatory): http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sk/index-e.html 
    • Stardust (comet sample return): http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html, , Stardust@home 
  • Part 2
    • Pluto business
    • Jupiters has rings too
    • Rock/mineral identification using IR spectra 
    • More Mineral Spectra
    • Lunar soil spectra
    • Comet Tail Spectrum
    • More Comet Tail Spectrum
    • Comet Spike/Anti-tail
    • Uranium 238 decay chain
    • Uranium 238 decay animation
    • Convection movie
    • Plate tectonics
    • NEAR/Shoemaker
    • Minor Planet Center Plots
    • Minor Planet Center-Distributions
    • Asteroid Size distribution
    • Kuiper Belt Page
    • Near Earth Object Program
    • Comet Page (JPL)
    • Solar system formation movie
    • Computer modelling of system formation
    • ExoPlanets:California and Carnegie Planet Search
    • ExtraSolar Planets
    • Extrasolar planetary disks
    • Kepler Mission
    • Cyclopaedia Selenica
    • Tidal effects in Earth-Moon System
    • more on tides
    • Tidal Bulge Simulator
    • Galileo obs of saturn
    • Madison Dynamo Experiment (seems dead)
    • Geodynamo models 
    • More Models
    • Earth's Magnetic Reversals
    • Geologic Record of Reversals
    • Mercury
    • Mercury rotation animation
    • Joint NASA/ESA Jupiter/Europa mission
    • Huygens Pics
  • Part 3
    • Our Sun: SOHO 
    • Our Sun: GONG
    • Helioseismology
    • Whirlpool nebula sketch by Lord Rosse

• Possibly helpful/fun:
   
  • (Above also available at: http://cleardarksky.com/c/ChmpgnSG1key.html)
  • Astronomy Picture of the day

• Project/Other Resources:
  • Comprehensive lists of Links
    • Astronomy Links
• General  Links
  • Sky and Telescope Magazine (including their on-line star chart --requires free registration)
  • The International  Year of Aastronomy

• Solar System
  
  • Solar System Live
  • Solar System Simulator
  • Movie tour of the solar system*
  • Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
  • The Eight Planets
  • Views of the Solar System
  • Browse the Solar System (USGS)*
  • Photographing the Moon
  • Height of Lunar Mountains
  • Formation of earth's moon by collision
  • International Occultation Timing Association (IOTA)
  • Voyager (Studied Outer Planets)
  • Galileo (Jupiter and its moons)
  • NASA Mars Exploration Missions
  • NASA Cassini Mission (Saturn)
  • Messenger mission to Mercury
    
• Comets and Asteroids
  • Comet Page (JPL)
  • Asteroid Occultation data
  • International Occultation Timing Association (IOTA)
  • IOTA -Asteroid Occultations
• Stars
  • Color contrasting binaries
• Galaxies and Nebulae
  • The Messier Catalog
  • Interactive NGC Catalog 
  • Some images of Star Clusters  
  • More Clusters 
• The Sky
  • Constellations
  • Astronomical League Pronunciation Guide
  • http://www.umich.edu/~lowbrows/guide/names.html
  • Some images of Star Clusters
  • More Clusters
• Ancient Astronomy/Archaeoastronomy
  • The Center for Archaeoastronomy
  • Newark (Ohio) earthworks and lunar astronomy
  • Sunwatch Village (Dayton)  
• Telescopes
  • How Telescopes Work (from How Stuff Works)
  • Telescope (Encyclopdedia Britannica)  
• Space Missions and Related
  • Heavens Above