Astro 1050 Lecture 2
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•A Little More about Scientific Notation, Units, and the Scale of the Universe
•How we name and start to classify stars
–*Constellations*, Magnitudes
•How the stars move across the sky
–The celestial sphere
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Reading:
For Today:  Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Appendix A
For Mon. : Ch. 3  (Ch. 4 by Wed.)
Next week: Homework on WebCT and Lab begins