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

Lab 4: Light and Wein's Law

Lab 5: The Revolution of the Moons of Jupiter

Lab 6: Photoelectric Photometry of the Pleiades

Lab 7: The Classification of Stellar Spectra

Lab 8: HR Diagram Explorer

Lab 9: The Hubble Redshift Distance Relation


Lab 16: Telescopes

Lab 12: Radio Astronomy of Pulsars