Laboratory Exercises

• Star Charts
• Composite Astronomical Images
• Spectroscopy  We will use the Project Star spectroscope to look at various spectra.
• Solar Rotation  A series of solar images will give us the period of rotation of the Sun.
• The H-R Diagram  Here the student generates their own H-Rdiagram of representative stars.
• Eclipsing Binaries  This uses an on-line applet to simulate the light curves of eclipsing binary systems.
• Visual Binaries  This uses plots of the orbits of visual binary stars.
            Here is a way to check your results in this lab.
• Spectroscopic Binaries
• Open Clusters
• Globular Clusters
• Finding the Shapley Center
• Active Galaxies

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Updated 2/14/2011