The class is offered in fall semesters, and in 2024 it will be an online course.
Additional content is available for
enrolled students on our server
Weekly topics
Syllabus
Everything you need to know about the class
Star Charts
Maps of the visible sky
Stellarium
Sky simulator on the web
Time
Meaning and measure
Celestial coordinates
Mapping the sky
Observables in Astrophysics
What light reveals
Astronomical Telescopes
How they work
Our observatories
Moore Mt. Kent and Mt. Lemmon
Class resources
Project guide
Suggestions for projects in 2019
Overleaf
Online collaborative LaTeX
Overleaf template
Zip and LaTeX source
Satellite tracker
Based on two-line elements (TLE)
Two-line elements
Earth satellite TLE
Sky and Telescope
Observing geosynchronous satellites
Supernovae
Latest Information
Sky Tonight
Messier and Caldwell Lists
Observable Comets
Images and Observations
Observatory Access
Data download
Use name and password provided
Astronomy website
Moore Observatory and Shared Skies
Directions
To Moore Observatory
Astronomical Coordinates
Universal Time: Earth and Universe
UT1 and UTC
ESA's Gaia Mission
Precision astrometry
On-line Public Astronomical Data
NASA ADS
NASA Astrophysics Data System publication index and archive
Aladin-Lite
View Astronomical Image Databases
Simbad
SIMBAD Astronomical Database
VizieR SED
Spectral Energy Distribution
SDSS
Sloal Digital Sky Survey
MAST
Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes
ESO Archive
Science archive from ESO telescopes
Ground-based Observatories and Telescopes
LSST
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will have an 8.4-meter diameter mirror and a 3.5 degree field of view
VLT
ESO's Very Large Telescope is 4 8.2-meter telescopes
Keck
The University of California's twin 10-meter telescopes on Mauna Kea
Siding Spring
4-meter and 2.3 meter telescopes in Australia
WIYN
An observatory with a 3.5-meter telescope operated by a university consortium and offering community access
Moore and Mt. Kent
Small telescopes in Kentucky and Australia operated by the University of Louisville and the
University of Southern Queensland
Software
AstroImageJ
Astronomical photometry, data reduction, and image processing
AstroCC
Celestial coordinate converter and object locator
Aladin
Data base visualization
Links
Sky-Map
Color version of the DSS
Exoplanet Transits
Ephemerides for observable known exoplanets
In-the-Sky
Any time and place
Heaven's Above
Louisville sky simulation
SAO/NASA ADS
Abstracts and articles
astro-ph
Astrophysics arXiv
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Amateur and professional
Lunar Picture of the Day
From ground and space
News from ESO
Black hole in M87