ASTRONOMY 305

How to Study

• Review your homework assignments and night lab handouts.
• Make sure that you have read all of the chapters below (except perhaps the details in the constellation chapter of Stars and Planets).
• Review the key ideas listed below using your class notes and the two books. In your own words, write out the definitions or descriptions of the key ideas below. The glossary of each text may also help.

Text: Stars and Planets

Chapter 16 - Telescopes and Binoculars

• Binocular Numbers
• Equatorial Mounts
• Altazimuth Mounts
• Refracting Telescope
• Newtonian Telescope
• Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope
• Telescope Parts
• Magnification
• Light Gathering Power
• f/ratio
• Resolving Power
• CCD's

Chapter 2 - A Tour of the Sky

• The Morning and Evening Star
• Doppler Shift
• Proper Motions
• Trigonometric Parallax
• light-year
• parsec
• absolute magnitude
• apparent magnitude

Chapter 3 - The Monthly Sky Maps

• The Magnitude Scale
• Be able to identify constellations visible during your night labs.

Text: Practical Astronomy with your Calculator

Coordinate Systems

• Scan through sections 17-31.
• Focus on the sections we covered in class.
• Rework your homework problems.
• Be able to convert between the coordinates systems below.

• Horizontal System
  • Altitude (a)
  • Azimuth (A)
• Equatorial System
  • Declination (d)
  • Right Ascension (a)
  • Hour Angle (H)
• Ecliptic System
  • Ecliptic Latitude (b)
  • Ecliptic Longitude (l)
• Galactic System
  • Galactic Latitude (b)
  • Galactic Longitude (l)