ASTRONOMY LAB MATERIAL

There are 4 types of material that may be needed for a given experiment: background material, instructions, report form, and extra. Extra is material that is not yet available from this web site. This will have to be provided by instructor. Some experiments will have all four items. Some will only have combined instructions and report form.

The background material does not need to be printed. The CLEA manuals are already stored on the computers in Parker 126.

Instructions are now available from this web site.You should print out instructions for those labs that involve computer programs, mainly CLEA, to avoid jumping back and forth between instructions window and program window. Also print out instructions for labs that involve going outside such as Use of C8 Telescope.

For this semester report forms will be provided by instructor. In some cases a last minute decision about whether to observe outside or stay inside will be made. 

Currently lab materials are only available in MS Word(.doc) format. They can be printed from the computer labs on the second floor of Parker Hall. They cannot be printed in the room used for astronomy lab. 

Experiments

Sky and Scope

1. Learning to Use Voyager III

    Background: Stars&Constellations

    Instructions: Voyager III    Compatability  Summer Star Quiz List  Star Quiz Fall & Spring List

    Report Form: Voyager III          

2. Telescopes

    Background #1: Telescope 

    Background #2: Scope Things to Know for Star Quiz

    Report Form:  Telescope   

  Extra: Telescopes need to be taken to lab room. Also telescope manual pages with tech info,meter sticks,  photo of C8 with labels, light source & lens.  

3. Using the C8 Telescope 

    Instructions: Using the C8  

    Report Form:  Using the C8

   Extra: star chart with items to observe marked

4. Virtual Sky I

    Report Form: Virtual Sky I 

5. Virtual Sky II 

    Report Form: Virtual Sky II 

      Instruction for Scope Setup: Using the C8   

      Report Form: Observing Special      

Solar System 

12. Sunspot Lab (CLEA)

     Background: CLEA manual

     Instructions: Sun  

     Report Form:  Sun 

    Extra: photo with spots labeled 1-5, instructor assign 2 sunspots to each student 

13. Moon

     Report Form: Moon  

    Extra: negative for cloudy Part D,rulers, stopwatch 

Stars and Galaxies

 16. Spectra (CLEA)

      Background: CLEA Manual 

      Report Form: Spectra 

           Extra: See list of web sites below for instructor's use with this lab.

17. Binary Stars 

      Instructions: Binary

      Report Form: Binary

      Extra: If clear go outside and observe two systems selected by instructor. Instructor provides star charts with items to observe marked.

18. HR diagram

     Background: HR Diagram 

     Report Form: HR Diagram

     Extra: example calculation, graph paper  

19. Object X Part I Measuring the Cosmos  

       Background: CLEA Manual

       Instructions: Object X Part I 

       Report Form: Object X Part I

20. Object X Part II Identify Object X  

      Background: CLEA Manual 

      Instructions: Object X Part II

      Report Form: Object X Part II 

21. X-Ray (CLEA XMM)

      Background: CLEA Manual 

      Instructions: X-Ray

      Report Form: X-Ray 

22. Cepheid Variable

      Instructions: Cepheid 

      Report Form:  Cepheid

     Extra:  graph paper 

23. Hubble Redshift (CLEA)

      Background:  CLEA Manual

      Instructions: Hubble Redshift

      Report Form:  Hubble Redshift

     Extra: example calculation

Web sites for use with Stellar Spectra (CLEA) Lab

http://chemistry.beloit.edu/bluelight/moviepages/em_el.htm

http://astro.u-strasbg.fr/~koppen/discharge/

http://chemistry.bd.psu.edu/jircitano/periodic4.html