Astronomy Topical Information

Astro Supplementary Materials which may be assigned reading.

• General/Introduction
  • Powers of 10 Video (youtube)
  • Simpsons version of powers of 10 (youtube)
    
• Star Maps & Constellations
  • REVIEW QUESTIONS: (ppt)
  • Read the following: Star Maps and Constellations (pdf 3.7 Megs)
  • For reference: Greek Symbols (pdf 198 k)
  • For reference: Constellations (pdf 504 k)
  • For reference: Star Catalog (pdf 898 k)
  • For reference: Star Maps (pdf 1.3 Meg)
  • American Association of Amateur Astronomers: Constellations (link)
  • Constellation ID Practice Slides
    • Set #1 (powerpoint)
    • Set #3 (powerpoint)
      
• Telescopes and Optics
  • Intro to Telescopes (from astrolab) [part1] [part2]
  • Manual for 8 inch scopes [pdf]
  • Lick Observatory Video (youtube)
  • Video: Mechanical Universe #40, Optics
    
• Ecliptic and Annual Motion
  • REVIEW QUESTIONS (ppt)
  • Ancient Maps
    • Mercator Map with ecliptic and major constellations (pdf)
    • Egyptian Map with Zodiac constellations (pdf)
    • Arabic Map, centered on ecliptic pole (pdf)
  • Analemma (pdf)
  • Map of Stonehenge (pdf)
  • Ephemeris Data for exact Solstice and Equinox times (link)
    
• Time and Diurnal Motion
  • REVIEW QUESTIONS (ppt)
  • StarWheels (The Night Sky) available here
  • Ephemeris program for daily sun and moon rise, transit, set times (link)
  • Nutation of the earth (link)
    
• Lunar Motion and Eclipses
  • REVIEW QUESTIONS (pps)
  • Moon Phase Calendar 2011 (jpg)
  • Lunar Eclipse Calendar 1977-2000 (pdf)
  • Ephemeris program for Lunar Phases (link)
  • Tide Information (link), More tide information (link)
    
• Planetary Motion
  • REVIEW QUESTIONS: (pps)
  • Videos: Mechanical Universe Series
    • Video: Mechanical Universe #9, Moving in Circles
    • Video: Mechanical Universe #21, Keplers 3 laws, 2nd version at youtube: (part1) (part2)
    • Video: Mechanical Universe #4, Inertia
    • Video: Mechanical Universe #6, Newton's Laws
    • Video: Mechanical Universe #8, The Apple and the Moon
  • Video: Losey's 1975 adaptation of Brecht's play about Galileo Galilei
    • Part1, Invents (steals) the telescope
    • Part2, sells telescope to Venice, mountains on moon, moons of jupiter
    • Part3, The young duke refuses to look through telescope, first problem with church, Clavius says he's right
    • Part4, Meets cardinals Barberini and Bellarmine (that Copernicus is wrong)
    • Part5, Student priest has crises
    • Part6, needle floats, aristotle is wrong, sunspots, pope is dying
    • Part7, observe sunspots, play within play, more trouble with church
    • Part8, before inquisition, pope Barberini, recantation
    • Part9, under house arrest, smuggling out book Two New Sciences
    • Part10, ditribe on ethics of science

    
    

• Light and Spectra
  • Video: Mechanical Universe #49, The Atom
  • Video: Mechanical Universe #50, Particles and Waves
  • Spectra of Elements: http://jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab/elements/Elements.html
    
• Nuclear Physics
  • Nuclear Table (pdf)
  • Video: Mechanical Universe #51, From Atoms to Quarks
  • Nuclear Safety, Regulaion
    • UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (link)
    • US Department of Energy (link), Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (link)
    • California Dept of Public Health, Radiologic Health Branch
    • National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center (livermore)
    • Environmental Protection Agency, blerb on Japan, more info
      
• Solar Physics
  • For sunspots, flares, aurora, www.spaceweather.com
  • Soho observatory: daily pictures of sun

  
  

• Astrophysics
  • HR Diagram (pdf)

  
  

• Stellar Evolution
  • Review slides for Nebula and clusters(pps)
  • Messier Catalog (link), Wikipedia (link)
  • IAU: List of supernovae (link)
  • Hubble Space Telescope nebula pictures (link)
  • Humor (link)

  
  

• Relativity, Black Holes
  • Video: Mechanical Universe #41, Michelson Morley Experiment
  • Video: Mechanical Universe #42, Lorentz Transformation
  • Video: Mechanical Universe #43, Velocity and Time
  • Video: Mechanical Universe #44, Mass, momentum and Energy (E=mc2)
  • Video: Nova Death of a Star (link), on youtube
  • Help search for Gravity Waves: Einstein at home
    
• Galaxies and Cosmology
  • Review slides for galaxies (pps)
  • Quasar 3C273 Spectra (pdf)
  • Video: Nova Monster Black Hole in the Milky Way transcript (link)
  • Video: Nova Runaway Universe transcript (link)

Updated: 2012Apr03