Astronomy Laboratory

Students who are enrolled in the Astronomy class but want to have a more hands-on experience and actually want to see celestial night sky objects with their own eyes can sign up for the Astronomy Laboratory (AST 1002L). Selected course material covered in class is studied in depth during the lab sessions. Once a week the lab students meet, and weather permitting, observe the sky, process and analyze data, and document their findings in a lab report. They will learn how to set up and operate different types of telescopes. After taking this lab, each student will have long lasting memories and some will never forget the feeling of smallness they had when they were looking at nebulae or galaxies at distances which seem beyond comprehension.

Curriculum

Indoor Labs

Angular Measurements
Introduction to the Telescope
Planetarium 1: Celestial Coordinate Systems
Planetarium 2: The Seasons
Astrophotography
Atomic Spectroscopy
Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
Jupiter's Moons
Radio Astronomy

Outdoor Labs

Solar Observations
Night Observations with the unaided eye and binoculars
Tour through the Night Sky and the Constellations
Advanced Night Observations
Jupiter and its Moons
Saturn
The Moon
Night Sky Observations using the NFC Observatory

Indoor Astronomy Lab, students perform atomic spectroscopy

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