The Teaching Observatory

Table of Contents

• Star Charts: Homework Example
• Telescopes and Ray Tracing: Homework Example and Lab Example
• Star Counting - Naked Eye Magnitude Limit, Seeing, and Light Polution: PDF Outdoor Example
• Jupiter's Moons and the Great Red Spot: Software Example
• Saturn's Rings and Moons: Software Example
• Double Stars: Lab Example and Software Example
• CCD Imaging
• Spectral Types, The Human Eye - Rods and Cones
• Star Clusters, Nebulae, Galaxies
• Moon - Eyepiece Projection Drawing, Maria ID Worksheet: Lab Example
• Uranus, Neptune and Pluto
• Mercury, Venus and Mars
• Comets and Asteroids: Astrometry - Where are they now?
• Measuring the Earth's Rotation with Star Drifting
• Orbit of Mercury - Indoor exercise using years of observations
• Photometery - With a Photoresistor, resistor, 9-Volt Battery, and Digital Voltmeter
• Meteor Shower Observations - Radio Telescope Meteor Counting