Greetings to students in ASTR 4880 from the instructor, Nancy Morrison.
This page is intended to provide a backup copy of the materials displayed in lecture, announcements relevant to the class, and access to the wealth of astronomical information on the World Wide Web.
Latest update: 11/20/09 18:21
Course documents, PDF unless otherwise noted:
Information for computer labs (click session numbers in table)
| Session | Done Mon. | Done Wed. |
|---|
| 1 | √ | √ |
| 2 | √ | Oct. 28 |
| 3 | Nov. 2 | Oct. 14 |
| 4 | Nov. 9 (apedit, aptrace for star); Nov. 16 | Oct. 21 |
| 5 | Nov. 9 | Oct. 28 |
| 6 | Nov. 16 | Nov. 4 |
| 7 | | Nov. 18 |
Tuesday, October 13, 2009: slitless spectrum of the solar corona
(click picture to see original page, scroll down for this picture) 
Tuesday, October 27, 2009: cross section of one order of a spectrum of the star α Cas, used to calculate the power received at the CCD in the first step of the throughput calculation
Tuesday, November 17, 2009: Article on optical fibers (figure 7, p. 49, shown in class; 676 KB PDF full article)
