Welcome to ASTRONOMY 1120L

Contact me at jss@hal.physast.uga.edu or in person at 235 Physics

Phone 353-2614 (home) or 542-2870 (office)

The UGA Observatory phone is 542-7827

My homepage is www.physast.uga.edu/~jss

Course materials: Syllabus

If you need more information on how the sky moves you migh tlook at the chapters in your non-lab class that deal with the motion in the sky.

In Bennett, et al. that is chapters 2 and S1

If you need more information on how CCD's work etc [long but thorough]

How to use : the telescope and the CCD

How to reduce your data

A Quick Guide to UNIX

Before you observe you might check out:

Observing tips

Athens weather and satellite pictures

Sunrise, Sunset, etc. for Athens


THE PROJECTS

  1. A gallery of interesting objects
  2. Scale of the telescope
  3. Double stars and resolution
  4. The Height of Lunar Mountains
  5. A Hunt for Galaxies
  6. Asteroids
  7. The motion of Neptune or Pluto
  8. Color changes in a galaxy