Observational Astronomy (308)

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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 sessino

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

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