Astronomy Lab: Earth, Moon, and Planets Lab, Fall 2005
Here are all the activities for which I have write ups. I've put a
"*" next to activities that I think have promise, but need
modification, and a "+" next to activities that worked pretty well
as-is.
Syllabus
- Attendance Policy
- Materials and preparation for labs
- Lab notebooks
- Grading
- Lab dates
Exercise set one
- Discussion: Things in the sky
- Indoor: Learn to use a sextant
- Computer: Learn to use planetarium software
- Outdoor: A first look at the sky and use of a sextant *
- Computer: Latitude, longitude, and time *
- On paper: Finding longitude from transit times +
Exercise set two
- Indoor: Learn to use a sextant
- Indoor: The sidereal day +
- Outdoor independent: Length of sidereal day
- Discussion: Motion of the ISS
Exercise set three
- Paper and Pencil: Measuring the field of view of a telescope
- Indoor: Learning to use a telescope
- Indoor: Calculate the field of view of a telescope
- Outdoor: Measure the field of view of a telescope
- Indoor: Plan an observation: stellar densities in and out of
Exercise set four
- Outdoor: Telescopic observation in and out of the Galactic
- Computer: Periods, velocities, and radii of circular orbits *
- Introduction to celestial coordinates *
- Computer: Motion of the Sun in the sky *
- Computer: Motion of planets in the sky *
- Computer: Motion of the Moon in the sky
Exercise set five
- Telescope: Phase of Venus +
- Finding the length of the sidereal day
- Telescope and binoculars: Features on the Moon *
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