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Apollo Lunar Mission Profile

A few flight profiles for a typical Space Shuttle Mission: Profile 1, Profile 2, Text Version

Vanderbilt's Dyer Observatory will have public nights (extra credit) in 2004.

Astronomy Picture of the Day - A new, "cool" picture each day!

Mars' 2003 Opposition was among the best ever.

Example Test - This is an old test from a similar class I taught at Vanderbilt.  It will give you an idea of the style of test you can expect.  Note that this course covered different material than ASTR 1030, so don't expect the questions to be the same.  (In other words, don't freak out if you've never heard of the stuff in some of the questions!)

Some Geocentric vs. Heliocentric helps:

Here is the link to the simulation we used in class to show that orbiting is just falling with enough "sideways" speed.

SEDS and JPL have very nice, comprehensive information about the Solar System.

Sky and Telescope and Astronomy Magazines have comprehensive websites for observers and amateur astronomers.

For help pronouncing all those Greek, Latin and Arabic words, check out the Astronomical League's Star and Constellation Pronunciation Guide and Solar System Pronunciation Guide.

The folks at NASA and others have some fun with the stellar spectral classes.

Your instructor is not the only one who models the cosmos with pizza.  Here are instructions for a pizza model of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io.

Here's a nice animation of the Local Group, our cluster of galaxies. 

The Atlas of the Universe shows the universe at various scales from a few light years to 10 billion light years.

Mars Talk for Adventure Science Center, Astronomy Day 2003.