HONORS ASTRONOMY 105

Honors Requirements

The honors projects are for those students that have been admitted to the Honors Program at SFA.
See Dr. Richman for an honors contract in room 303 of the Liberal Arts Building.
http://www.sfasu.edu/honors/about/index.asp

These projects below are not for extra credit but instead they are extra requirements for those students.

To receive honors credit for Astronomy 105, each student must complete all homework assignments,
lab exercises and exams. The following must also be completed and turned in on exam days:

• Exam I Day:
  • Home Observing Project 1 - The Astrolabe
  • CLEA Computer Exercise: Photoelectric Photometry of the Pleiades [ Direct Link ]
    • Hint: Download the Student Manual and EXE file from the Direct Link above.
    • This graph may also help: CLEA-Pleiades-Data-Graph.pdf
• Exam II Day:
  • Home Observing Project 2 - The Size of the Sun
  • CLEA Computer Exercise: Spectral Classification of Stars [ Direct Link ]
    • Hint: Download the Student Manual and EXE file from the Direct Link above.
• Exam III Day:
  • Home Observing Project 3 - The Cross Staff
  • CLEA Computer Exercise: The Hubble RedShift-Distance Relation [ Direct Link ]
    • Hint: Download the Student Manual and EXE file from the Direct Link above.
• Exam IV Day:
  • Home Observing Project 4 - The Sidereal Period of the Moon
  • CLEA Computer Exercise: The Revolution of the Moons of Jupiter [ Direct Link ]
    • Hint: Download the Student Manual and EXE file from the Direct Link above.

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