ASTRONOMY 100, SPRING 2008 HOME PAGE

STUDY GUIDE FOR THIRD EXAM

Sidereal Time computer. Input longitude

Night Sky Live

This page contains the class syllabus, information about observing sessions and the spring sky in general, plus many links to astronomy resources, including my own astronomy homepage

• ASTRONOMY 100 SYLLABUS

• The class meets Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 5:30 to 6:45. Observing sessions will generally be held on Tuesday evenings, beginning at at about 7 p.m. and getting later as the semester wears on. Call 862-3177 for an update on

  The observatory is on the roof of Jones Hall, Room 401. Take the stairs or the elevator to the 3rd floor and follow the signs.
  

  We might have at least one afternoon session for solar observation sometime during the course.

My astronomy home page, with links to other resources in astronomuy

STELLAR, GALACTIC, AND EXTRAGALACTIC ASTRONOMY

Link to The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia

Hubble Space Telescope "album" of images

Hubble Galaxy Collection

Star formation region in M16, the "Eagle Nebula" in Serpens.

Hubble Space Telescope photo of distant galaxies. Click on image.

Ultra Deep Field image from HST 11.3 day HST image.

Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Go to "Visual Tools," Finding chart", and put in the following parameters: ra: 185, dec: 5.5, 2"/pix, width: 1024, height: 1024, then click "get image." Scroll around. This is in the Virgo cluster of galaxies. Then try other values, espcially near dec=0 to 15 deg and ra=120 to 240 deg (8h to 16h). After going to Finding Chart, try "Navigate," first zooming down to get a large field. Another Virgo field: ra=187.5, dec=13.0, containing M87; or 187.5, 12.4.

SEDS Messier web site, with images of all 107 Messier objects

Jim Burnell's Messier Site

The Hercules cluster, M13

The Whirlpool Galaxy, M51 in Canes Venatici. Photo RDP Tulane.

The triple star system 40 Eridani. The fainter stars are B and C. 40 Eri B is a white dwarf star, 40 Eri C is a red dwarf.Photo RDP, Tulane. Exposure 0.12 sec @f/10, St-7XE.

Sounds of Pulsars. Pulsar signals converted to sound, including Crab pulsar.

Pulsar tutorial

The Hafele-Keating experiment, 1971, testing special and general relativity.

Jerry Lodgriguss' Astro- photography site

THE MOON AND PLANETS

Galileo image of portion of lunar far side, showing Mare Orientale , courtes y NASA

Clementine images from NRL

Image of 4 day old moon, 4/12/05. Photo RDP.

Hubble Solar System Collection

Mars Rover (Spirit, Opportunity) Home Page

Mars Global Surveyor Page

Mars at 6h UT on 8/24/03. 16 inch SCT Tulane University. RDP and JM. Processed by John Martinez

Mars was at opposition (closest approach to Earth) on August 27,2003, the distance being less than 35,000,000 miles.

Google Mars Maps

Mars map site (credit?)

Annotated map of the surface of Mars

Albedo features on Mars

Mars' central meridian on selected dates in Aug.-Sep. 2003

JPL Mars Pathfinder Mission

NASA Mars Exploration Site JPL

Mars Global Surveyor

Mars from Nine Planets

Mars: FAS Space Policy Project

The Nine Planets web site with planetary information

Magellan radar orbiter home page

Mars Global Surveyor Page

Galileo image of Jupiter

JPL's Galileo Home Page. Many new images now available, especially of Jupiters Galilean satellites.

Jupiter 02:30 UTC 14 April 2005. RDP.

Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and its large moon Titan

Hubble Space Telescope image of Saturn

Cassini-Huygens Mission page

Interactive Java applet showing Saturn and Titan, Rhea, Tethys, Dione, and Enceladus

Hubble image of Uranus and its ring system

Uranus, with ring and moons. ESO, Chile. Courtesy of Sky and Telescope. Moons, from top left to bottom right are Titania, Umbriel, Miranda, Ariel, and Oberon. Also Portia (upper left of ring) and Puck (lower right of ring )

Uranus and three moons, 4 June 9h UT. From lower left to upper right, the moons are Oberon, Titania, and Ariel. Photo RDP.

THE SUN



Recent (5/26/98) disk and limb image of the Sun






NASA Eclipse Page (Fred Espenak). Eclipses 1001-3000 A.D.

Recent (8/29/97) white light Solar Image (Mees Solar Obs)




• Mees Solar Observatory, Hawaii. White light and other solar images.

• National Solar Observatory images, Sacramento Peak

• MLSO/NASA current H-alpha image

• Today's Space Weather

• Mauna Loa Solar Observatory site/images

• /NSO/Sacremento Peak Solar Imagery

  M51 (Whirlpool galaxy; soon)

  etc.

  Variable star maxima:
  Some finder charts for noted variable stars.

  o Ceti (Mira)[333.8 days or about 11 months] 4/15/95, 3.4; June 7 2004; April 14, 2006. Deduced period, 332 d.
  R Leonis 3/28/95, 5.8; 4/29/06; deduced period = 330 d (or 368 d).

  Sky and Telescope magazine's home page, with information on events of interest in the sky, etc.

• Go to general astronomy resources