Clarification of homework policy:
Homework Assignment #1 (magnitudes), due in class Wed. Sept. 21: Chromey, Ch. 1: Problems 8-11, 13-14 plus Exercise 1 from the Gallery of Planetary Nebula Spectra.
Homework Assignment #2 celestial sphere), due Monday, Oct. 10 in my mailbox by 5 PM
Homework Assignment #3 (statistics), due Friday, Oct. 14 in my mailbox by 5 PM
Homework Assignment #4 (telescopes), due in class Wed. Oct. 26
Photometry Links
CCD Links
Spectroscopy Links
Probability and Statistics Links
UNIX Resources
Astronomy Resources
Observing, Spherical Trig, Time and the Sky
Light
Stars
The Hubble Heritage
Project. This technicolor gallery
features some of the most glorious images taken with HST, meticulously
processed to bring out details and colors.
If you work with someone on a homework assignment,
write down the name(s) of your co-worker(s) on your paper. The important
thing to remember is that what you turn in for a grade must be in your
own words. Please make sure that what you turn in in legible, smooth-edged and stapled.
CLASS LINKS AND APPLETS
e-book about ImageJ photometry
another page about ImageJ photometry
CCD Photometry (from AAVSO)
Photometry website
MaximDL photometry tutorial
Apogee's CCD University pages
Greg Bothun's (irreverent) CCD page
MOS
capacitor
CCD
architecture and readout
QE
and Thinning
Clocking
and charge transfer
Java
Simulation of CCD fabrication
Description
of noise sources in a CCD
Spectroscopy website
Classic
prism spectrograph
Fraunhofer diffraction
The Grating Equation
Blaze Angle
Overlapping
orders
Grating applet
Double-slit
Interference (Young's Experiment)
Single-Slit Diffraction
Another on Single-Slit Diffraction
Double-slit
with
diffraction
Several good applets
Central Limit Theorem
Central Limit Theorem applet
Pascal's Triangle
More Pascal's Triangle
Binomial applet
Poisson applet
Very basic tutorial
UC Berkeley
U. Surrey
U. Washington
ADS Abstract Service
NED Extragalactic Database
SIMBAD
Vizier
SkyView
Digitized Sky Survey
Los Alamos Preprints (astro-ph)
2MASS Image Gallery
MAST Archive Searcher
IRAF tutorial
EXCELLENT page for general observing concepts READ THIS!
Bob O'Connell's observing page ANOTHER GREAT OBSERVING PAGE - READ THIS, TOO!
U. Nebraska's GREAT applets:
Celestial Coordinates
Horizon Coordinates
Sidereal Time, Right Ascension and Hour Angle
Seasons and the Zodiac
Paths of the Sun
Rotating Sky Explorer
Galactic Coordinate System
The Constellations and their Stars
Nick Strobel's Naked-Eye Astronomy notes
A
Compendium of Atmospheric Optics Effects
World
Time Zones
Sidereal Time Applet
Solar vs. sidereal day
Star Trail video
Williamstown in Google maps
Spherical triangle applet
Spherical trig sine and cosine formulae
Apparent nightly motion of a star
Precession demo
A
Compendium of Atmospheric Optics Effects
The
Doppler Effect
Polarization demo
Atmospheric Opacity (from JPL)
Electromagnetic Spectrum (from Kirkwood Schools)
Dispersion
Reflection, Refraction, Diffraction
Superposition
Transverse
and Longitudinal Waves
Superposition
Principle
Atmospheric Optics
Blackbodies
The Blackbody Game
Radiation Laws & Color Indices
Kirchhoff's Laws
Transverse Velocity
Derivation
Proper
Motion & More...
Parallax applet
Nearby Stars
Star Colors
Magnitudes
More on Colors and Magnitudes
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