Science 170 - Astronomy Spring 2005
David A. Cebula, cebulad@pacificu.edu, Strain 107, 503-352-2756
Office Hours: (see below) or by appointment
During finals I am holding a review session on Sunday evening and some extra office hours. I can also meet with you at other times if you make an appointment with me.
- Review Session Sunday May 15th from 6-8pm in Strain 121.
- Office Hours: Wed 1-4:30, Fri 12-1 and Mon 3-5pm and 6-7pm.
The comprehensive final exam is on Monday, May 16th in Strain 121 from 7-9:30pm (The final should only take 1 hour or so, however). Here is the review sheet in both PDF and DOC formats.
Observing Session Credit/Extra Credit:
If you attend the Star Party on Saturday at OSMI (below), I will count it as an observing session. Just write up a paragraph about what you looked at and what kind of telescope(s) you looked through. If you have already done an observing session, I will replace a webwarmup grade.
A Star Party will be held Saturday evening at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.
The Rose City Astronomers and Vancouver Sidewalk Astronomers will have telescopes available so the public can view the stars, the moon, and Jupiter. The free event begins at 8:30 p.m. in OMSI's east parking lot, 1945 S.E. Water Ave., Portland.
For possible weather cancellation, call 503-797-4610 after 3 p.m. Saturday. Hit 2 for the star party schedule. The forecast does not look very good right now, so be sure to call before heading to Portland.
Links
- The cool 3-D galaxy distribution picture I finally found at the SDSS.
- The Hubble Heritage Project has many more pictures than the few we have shown in class.
- SOHO is constantly taking new sun pictures.
- The Best of SOHO has the cool ultraviolet sun movie and a lot more.
- Listen to the Sun's vibrations (bottom of the page).
Recent Class Presentations - If you are on dailup some of these will take a long time to download. If you have any trouble viewing these PowerPoint files, let me know.
Remember to use your lecture notes along with the presentations, since not everything we discuessed in class is in the text of the presentations.
- Extreme Stars (as a .zip file to include the movies).
- Stellar Evolution (as a .zip file to include the movies).
- Solar Fusion
- The Sun (as a .zip file to include the movies).
Older Class Presentations
Interesting Stuff
- We are using The Nine Planets to supplement the textbook for the planet topics.
- Stand on the Moon! 360 panoramas with audio!
- The hammer and feather movie on the moon.
- You may find it helpful to view the animation that goes with figure 3.11 on blackbody radiation.
- Lunar parallax photos.
- Try this web based parallax lab experiment at Cornell, to help understand how parallax changes with distance.
Cool links and other stuff
Saturn pictures from the Casssini spacecraft.