Laboratory Manual for Astronomy – ASTR 122
Table of Contents
Unit One Experiments
- Experiment 1: The Night Sky and Celestial Coordinates
- Experiment 2: Phases of the Moon
- Experiment 3: Models of the Solar System
Unit Two Experiments
- Experiment 4: Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion
- Experiment 5: Light Spectra and Spectral Analysis
- Experiment 6: Small Telescopes
Unit Three Experiments
- Experiment 7: Lunar Surface Features
- Experiment 8: Least-Energy Trajectories
- Experiment 9: Mass of Jupiter
Unit Four Experiments
- Experiment 10: The Inverse-Square Law
- Experiment 11: The HR Diagram
- Experiment 12: Binary Stars
Unit Five Experiments
- Experiment 13: Cepheid Variables
- Experiment 14: Hubble’s Law
Additional Experiments and Take-Home Exercises
- Robotic Explorers
- Stellar Parallax
- Spectral Classification
- Galaxy Classification