Observational Astronomy (308)

These notes are brief summaries and links for the in-class content for the Monday class meetings of the Fall Semester 2019.

Week 1 (August 19)

• Orientation to the class
• Purpose, activities, outcomes
• Visiting the observatory
• Remote observing
• Semester projects
• Facilities and research
• On-line with Mt. Kent live session

Week 2 (August 26)

• What we observe
  • Position and celestial coordinates
  • Flux and magnitude
• What we infer
  • Distance
  • Size
  • Luminosity
  • Composition
  • Evolution
• Useful tools for access to data
  • Stellarium
  • Simbad
  • Aladin