Lecture:
Dr. Michael (Mike) Pierce
(TTh 11:00 - 12:15 am, STEM 180)
Office: PS206
Phone: 766-6102
Email: mpierce@uwyo.edu
Office Hours: Wed. 1:30 - 3:30 pm,
Lab:
Tyler Ellis Wood
(Thurs. 7:00pm - 9:00 pm, STEM 180)
Office: PS109
Phone: 766-3162 Email:(tellis8@uwyo.edu)
Office Hours: TBD
Discussion:
Michael Pierce
(Thurs. 3:10 - 4:00 pm, STEM 180)
Office: PS206
Phone: 766-6102 Email:(mpierceuwyo.edu)
Office Hours: see above
General Announcements
Class Resources
Syllabus and Class Schedules:
Preliminaries:
Class Lectures:
Weekly Homework Assignments:
Using the Rooftop Telescope:
Additional Internet Resources
Math Review:
Java Applets for Astronomy:
Apparent Motion of a Star
Rotational Motion
Planetary Motion
Keppler's Second Law
Electromagnetic Wave
Interference of Light
Doppler Effect
Google Sky
Android Applets for Astronomy:
Problem Solving Strategies:
Celestial Sphere:
Nice Open Source Planetarium Software
Google Sky
Time & Calendars:
Time Zones & Calendars
Sidereal Time
Sidereal Time Calculator
Telescopes:
History of the Telescope
List of the World's Largest Optical Telescopes
List of the World's Largest Radio Telescopes
Solar System Overview:
The Nine Planets: Beautiful Site on Solar System
Solar Images:
Ground-based Images of the Sun
Great Images and Movies of the Sun From Space
Terrestrial Planets:
Mercury
Radar Images of Venus (Magellan)
Surface of Venus (Venera)
Earth
Earth's Weather
Libration (Wobble) Video of the Moon
Images of the Moon
Apollo Image Archive
The Lastest on Mars
Mars Rover (Spirit)
Mars Rover (Curiosity)
Mars Rover Multimedia
Mars from Orbit
Explanation of Feedback Processes in Climate Models
Comets & Asteroids:
NEAR Mission to Asteriod Eros
Deep Impact Mission to Comet Temple-1
Giant Planets:
Galileo Mission to Jupiter
Saturn Cassini Mission
Voyager Mission to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
Nice Overview of Pluto & the Kuiper Belt
Exoplanets:
Exoplanets Data Base and Resources
Potentially Habitable Extrasolar Planets
Various Pretty Pictures:
Astronomy Picture
of the Day
Space
Telescope Images (Hubble Heritage)
More Space Telescope Images
Amateur Astronomy:
Getting Started in Amateur Astronomy
How to Choose a Telescope
Sky & Telescope Magazine
Astronomy Magazine
Amateur Telescope Reviews and Used Equipment
Laramie Astronomical Society
Denver Astronomical Society