Astro 10 stuff

Astro 10 stuff

Monthly Skymaps (pdf files) – Useful for nightly observations and for journal purposes!

Telescopes—all kinds of configurations (Galilean, Newtonian, Cassegrain, etc.), including ones you may have never heard of before…

General Handouts:

Astronomy Timeline (Western Civilization)

How to determine the distance to a star

Parallax—what it is and how to measure it

Measuring the angular size in the sky and finding Polaris, the North Star

Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity in a nutshell…

Is Pluto really a planet?

Journal Handouts:

Tips on how to draw an observation for your journal.

Sample entry for naked eye sky observations for your journal

Sample entry for telescopic observations for your journal

The five criteria used to grade journal entries

Minipaper Handouts:

The five criteria used to grade minipapers

General comments about the minipapers

Moon on March 11, 2005

The Moon and Mercury on March 11, 2005

Article on Saturn Observations

http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/planets/article_304_1.asp

satellite Titan: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/images.cfm?subCategoryID=10

Jupiter as seen with Cassini spacecraft

http://skyandtelescope.com/news/article_1012_1.asp

Jupiter closeup shots and Galilean satellites: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-jupiter.html

Mars in 2003

http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/planets/article_1043_1.asp

http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/planets/article_970_1.asp

map of Mars: http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/tharsis/ngs.html

Planetary maps

http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/mercury.php

Mercury

http://www.geocities.com/kev_woodward/Mercury/Mercury.htm

Venus

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/venus.html

http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conMediaFile.4842

http://home.cwru.edu/~sjr16/advanced/20th_far_magellan.html

Uranus

http://skyandtelescope.com/news/current/article_846_1.asp

http://www.solarviews.com/eng/uranus.htm#views

Neptune

http://www.solarviews.com/eng/neptune.htm

Pluto and Charon

http://www.solarviews.com/eng/pluto.htm

Asteroids

http://www.solarviews.com/eng/asteroid.htm

Quaoar, a Kuiper Belt object

http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~chad/quaoar/

http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~chad/quaoar/precovery.html

Sedna, an Oort Cloud object

http://ipac.jpl.nasa.gov/media_images/ssc2004-05c_medium.jpg

http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/sedna/

Cruithne, Earth’s “second moon”

http://www.astro.uwo.ca/~wiegert/3753/3753.html