Astro 1050
Jan. 12, 2005
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Extra Credit Astronomy Articles on Friday
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Finish Ch. 1:
More about Scientific Notation, Units, and
the Scale of the Universe, Powers of ten on the web:
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/po
wersof10/index.html
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Start Chapter 2 on the Sky
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How we name and start to describe stars
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Constellations, Magnitudes
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How the stars move across the sky
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The celestial sphere
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Reading:
For Today:
Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Appendix A
For Wed. :
Ch. 3
Homework on WebCT (Due next Wed.) and Lab begins next week