AS 102: Astronomy

Lab 1: The Moon and the Seasons

1. Moon Phases
2. Lunar Phases
3. Lunar Phases Web Tool
4. Seasons
5. Applet: Seasons
6. The Sun's Path
7. The Motion of the Earth Around the Sun
8. Earth-Moon-Sun Geometry Page (was not in the lab)

Lab 2: Motion of the Planets

1. Astronomical Models
2. Ptolemy's Model
3. Epicycles and Deferents
4. Jupiter
5. Demonstrating a Geocentric Model
6. Demonstrating a Heliocentric Model
7. Retrograde-O-Matic 2000
8. Retrograde Motion of Mars and Venus
9. Planetary Motion
10. Ptolemy's Epicycles
11. Stellar Parallax

Lab 3: Kepler's Laws

• The Solar System Collaboratory

Lab 4: Light and Wein's Law

• The Electromagnetic Spectrum
• Blackbody Radiation and Stellar Luminosity
• Plank Law Radiation Distributions
• Spectrum Explorer Applet
• Blackbody: The Game!
• Stars and Blackbody

Lab 5: The Revolution of the Moons of Jupiter

• Install the Jupiter Lab. When it asks what to do with the file, click Open, then go through the process of installing it on your computer. Then from the Programs menu select, CLEA Exercises, and Jupiter Moons.

Lab 6: Photoelectric Photometry of the Pleiades

• Install the Photometry Lab. When it asks what to do with the file, click Open, then go through the process of installing it on your computer. Then from the Programs menu select, CLEA Exercises, and Pleiades Photometry.

Lab 7: The Classification of Stellar Spectra

• Install the Stellar Spectra Lab. When it asks what to do with the file, click Open, then go through the process of installing it on your computer. Then from the Programs menu select, CLEA Exercises, and Stellar Spectra.

Lab 8: HR Diagram Explorer

• HR Diagram Explorer
• Stellar Evolution
• Stellar Evolution and the HR Diagram
• Astronomy Applets Scroll down and select the HR diagram simulator.
• HR Diagram activities

Lab 9: The Hubble Redshift Distance Relation

• Install the Pulsar Lab. When it asks what to do with the file, click Open, then go through the process of installing it on your computer. Then from the Programs menu select, CLEA Exercises, and Hubble Redshift.

Lab 16: Telescopes

• The Refraction of Light
• The Refracting Astronomical Telescope

Lab 12: Radio Astronomy of Pulsars

• Install the Pulsar Lab. When it asks what to do with the file, click Open, then go through the process of installing it on your computer. Then from the Programs menu select, CLEA Exercises, and Pulsar Lab.