Kansas City Kansas Community College Astronomy Class

NASC 107-50 Index
[Generic Syllabus] [Customized Syllabus] [First Day Handouts] [Introduction] [Chapter 1] [Chapter 2] [Chapter 3] [Chapter 4] [Chapters 5 and 9] [Chapter 6] [Chapter 7] [Chapter 8] [Chapter 10] [Chapter 11] [Chapter 12] [Chapter 13] [Chapter 14] [Chapter 15] [Chapter 16] [Field Trip Docs] [News Articles]

NASC 108-50 Index
[Generic Syllabus] [Customized Syllabus] [Long Term Observing Projects] [Guidelines for Lab Reports] [Lunar Heights Photographs] [Angular Size and Distance to a Planet] [Astrometry of Asteroids] [Astronomical Imaging] [Tzec Maun Robotic Observing] [Mercurys Rotation Handouts] [Saturn's Rotation and Rings] [Spectral Classification] [Hubble's Law]

NASC 107-50

Generic Syllabus	Generic Syllabus NASC107 (zipped) - 13kb
Customized Syllabus	Syllabus NASC107 (zipped) - 68kb
First Day Handouts	End of Chapter Assignments - 5kb How to Study Astronomy - 35kb If It's Supernatural It Isn't Science - 9kb Test Taking Strategies - 28kb Test Taking Tips for True-False Questions - 16kb Test Taking Tips for Multiple Choice Questions - 27kb Test Taking Tips for Short Answer Questions - 18kb Test Taking Tips for Essay Questions - 26kb Test Taking Tips for Open Book Tests - 25kb
Introduction	Introduction Notes - 770kb Size Ranking Task - 647kb
Chapter 1	Chapter 1 Notes - 275kb Celestial Sphere Concept Map Assignment - 289kb Seasons Ranking Task Assignment - 64kb Lunar Phases Lecture Handout (diagrams covered during lecture) - 60kb Lunar Phases Activity Worksheet - 20kb Lunar Phases Exercise Part 1 - 973kb Lunar Phases Exercise Part 2 - 1,012kb HyperStudio Player v.4 - 1,617kb Lunar Phases Installation Instructions
Chapter 2	Chapter 2 Notes - 894kb Greek Astronomers - 112kb Kepler's Laws Concept Map Assignment - 189kb Laws of Motion Concept Map - 52kb Gravity Concept Map - 53kb Newton's First Law Concept Map - 55kb Newton's Second Law Concept Map - 48kb Newton's Third Law Concept Map - 38kb Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation Concept Map - 38kb
Chapter 3	Chapter 3 Notes - 179kb Nature of Light Concept Map - 357kb Telescopes Concept Map - 287kb
Chapter 4	Chapter 4 Notes - 608kb Electromagnetic Radiation Concept Map - 431kb Streetlight Spectroscopy Handout - 252kb Spectroscope Cutouts - 36kb
Chapters 5 and 9	Chapter 5 Notes - 97kb Chapter 9 Notes - 223kb Theories of Solar System Formation Concept Map - 311kb Comets, Asteroids, and Meteoroids Concept Map - 453kb
Chapter 6	Chapter 6 Notes - 1,725kb Earthquake Exercise - 444kb Lunar Orbiter Exercise - 2,261kb Earth Concept Map - 322kb Moon Concept Map - 278kb
Chapter 7	Chapter 7 Notes - 635kb Mercury Concept Map - 236kb Venus Concept Map Assignment - 194kb Mars Concept Map - 319kb Terrestrial Atmospheres Concept Map - 198kb
Chapter 8	Chapter 8 Notes - 308kb Jupiter's Rotation Exercise - 116kb Jupiter Concept Map - 324kb Saturn Concept Map - 364kb Uranus and Neptune Concept Map - 203kb
Chapter 10	Chapter 10 Notes - 1,276kb Sun Concept Map Exercise - 409kb
Chapter 11	Chapter 11 Notes - 266kb Stellar Luminosities Ranking Task #1 - 22kb Stellar Luminosities Ranking Task #2 - 21kb Characterizing Stars Concept Map - 481kb Spectral Classification Exercise - 63kb
Chapter 12	Chapter 12 Notes - 380kb Stellar Evolution Concept Map - 668kb
Chapter 13	Chapter 13 Notes - 57kb Stellar Death Concept Map - 600kb
Chapter 14	Chapter 14 Notes - 235kb Black Holes Concept Map - 399kb
Chapter 15	Chapter 15 Notes - 449kb Milky Way Galaxy Concept Map - 228kb
Chapter 16	Chapter 16 Notes - 1,995kb Galaxies Concept Map - 381kb
Field Trip Documents	March 29th, 2008 - Powell Observatory Map - 90kb

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Observing Tips	The Atmosphere and Observing - 196kb An examination of the effects of optical aberrations, obstruction and seeing on real Planetary images - 397kb
News Articles	Earth Arctic ice melting rapidly, study says - 38kb Fossils Suggest Chaotic Recovery from Mass Extinction - 47kb The Day The Earth Fell Over - 43kb The Red Sea Parts Again - 122kb Ancient mariners reveal tales from the Earth's core - 74kb Hurricanes to Unleash Dormant, Hidden Power - 52kb Earth's ozone layer appears to be on the road to recovery. - 79kb Breakthrough: New Way to Peek Inside Earth - 192kb Dinosaurs Fried Within Hours of Cosmic Collision, Study Concludes - 42kb Ancient Impact Turned Part of Earth Inside-Out - 29kb Giant Slab of Earth's Crust Found Near Core - 102kb Ancient Asteroid Made Jell-O of Earth at Chicxulub Crater in Mexico's Yucatan - 69kb Meteorite survivor unearthed - 72kb In Search of Crater Chains - 128kb 2005 Leap Second - 576kb Moon Reiner Gamma swirl: magnetic effect of a cometary impact? - 121kb Lunar Swirls, Magnetic Anomalies, and the Reiner Gamma Formation - 35kb Mysterious Lunar Swirls - 101kb Hard-nosed Advice to Lunar Prospectors - 89kb Moonquakes - 71kb The Smell of Moon Dust - 191kb Jack Skis the Moon - 121kb Planets Twin Lakes on Titan - 106kb A Spokesman for Saturn's Rings - 34kb Hubble Zooms In on Jupiter's New Red Spot - 127kb Saturn's Stunning Beauty - 53kb Water ice in crater at Martian north pole - 85kb Saharan Sand Dunes Found on Saturn's Moon Titan - 150kb First Images from Venus Express - 73kb First Picture from Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter - 114kb Mars Odyssey team creates high resolution video ride through Valles Marineris - 153kb Cassini observations suggest cryovolcanism on Saturn's moon Titan - 60kb Weird Saturn ring spokes may return in July - 32kb Martian Ice: Wide and Deep - 57kb Secret Documents Rewrite the Discovery of Neptune - 90kb Titan, Mars methane may be on ice - 96kb Radical! Liquid Water on Enceladus - 122kb Cassini looks at the dark side - 126kb Jupiter's New Red Spot (Sky and Telescope) - 51kb Peeking behind the veil of Venus to study its weather - 43kb Jupiter's New Red Spot (NASA News) - 102kb What's Inside a Gas Giant? - 40kb The Source of Titan's Methane - 37kb New Rings and Moons for Uranus - 56kb Ice Volcanoes Captured - 51kb Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Approaches Red Planet - 53kb Mars Express Studies Possible Aurorae Above Mars - 49kb Phobos' Shadow on Mars captured by Mars Express - 66kb Spirit Heads to Home Plate as Opportunity Finally Roves On - 153kb Cassini Observes the Orbital Dance of Epimetheus and Janus - 136kb Meteoroids, Meteorites, Asteroids, Comets and Minor Planets Geek Trivia: Planet X marks the spot - 53kb Pluto Gets an Asteroid Number - 38kb All Hail Eris and Dysnomia - 62kb Pluto's Two Small Moons Officially Named Nix and Hydra - 52kb Tally of Asteroids Harboring Moons Grows Beyond 30 - 41kb Neptune Linked to Potential Swarm of Asteroids - 54kb Corkscrew Asteroid - 77kb Spitzer Telescope Sees Trail of Comet Crumbs - 57kb New Study: Some Asteroids are Like Onions - 33kb 'Shocking' Experiment Reveals How Asteroids Explode - 31kb New Object is 2nd Rock from the Sun - 48kb Long Road to Pluto and Why We're Going - 68kb Meteorites discovered to carry interstellar carbon - 21kb Mission: Pluto - 192kb Lessons from an Odd Kuiper Belt Object - 51kb Hayabusa: Team reestablishes contact with its "Falcon" - 81kb Hubble supports a common birth of Pluto's moons - 36kb Wild 2 reveals its hot origins - 61kb When Meteors Explode: Full Account of a Wild Chicago Night - 46kb Chicago's Rain of Meteorites - 70kb Comet Pojmanski - 69kb Measuring Charon - 135kb How Big Is 2003 UB313? - 81kb Pluto Adds Two New Moons - 59kb New Horizons is Pluto Bound - 47kb Taurid Seen Impacting Moon - 117kb Asteroid Dust on Earth - 61kb Stardust Returns - 53kb Girl Who Named Pluto - 40kb Sun Solar Flares Could Disrupt Critical GPS Devices - 38kb Surprises from the Edge of the Solar System - 102kb Long Range Solar Forecast - 182kb Views of the March 29th Solar Eclipse - 217kb Scientists Gaze Inside Sun, Predict Strength of the Next Solar Cycle - 34kb Solar Storm Warning - 92kb Solar Cycle Solved? - 108kb Stars Magnetic Fields Sculpt Narrow Jets From Dying Star - 48kb Mira stars are wonderfully complex - 37kb Oscillating stars reveal their ages - 43kb Stellar outburst continues to puzzle - 71kb Star Explodes Inside Another Star - 56kb Origin found for odd 'extreme helium stars' - 23kb Most Stars Are Single - 61kb Polaris Companion - 64kb Vega Mystery Solved - 104kb Exoplanets The Birth of Carbon Planets? - 149kb Amateurs Help Discover Transiting Exoplanet - 145kb Planets Around Planets? - 72kb New planet: Icy super Earth dominates distant system - 41kb Block Starlight to See Planets - 36kb Low Mass Exoplanet Discovered - 81kb	Brown Dwarfs Astronomers get a chance to size up a brown dwarf - 39kb Nebulae Inside the Tarantula Nebula - 65kb Double helix nebula found in center of the Milky Way - 53kb Vanderbuilt Astronomers Map the Star Forming Winds of M42 - 112kb Milky Way Omega Centauri - largest globular star cluster in the Milky Way - 761kb Mysterious Sagittarius A* -- The Supermassive Black Hole at Center of the Milky Way - 91kb "Field of Streams" found in Milky Way - 23kb SDSS finds new Milky Way satellites - 94kb New Map of the Milky Way Shows Our Galaxy to be a Cannibal - 115kb The Milky Way's Middle - 121kb The Milky Way's newest satellite - 160kb The outer Milky Way's exotic origin - 58kb Milky Way super star cluster - 63kb The Milky Way's central Xray loop - 62kb Astronomers GLIMPSE Milky Way bar - 76kb Astro Apocalypse Won't Happen Here - 38kb Galactic Glow Gleaned - 69kb Galaxies Subaru Discovers the Most Distant Galaxy to Date - 67kb The first dark galaxy? - 72kb Infrared Andromeda Galaxy - 180kb Spitzer Finds Hundreds of Distant Galaxy Clusters - 93kb Black Hole-Galaxy Link Extended - 77kb The Hubble Ultra Deep Field seems to have a lot of dark areas in it. - 46kb Hubble images quintuple quasar - 79kb Astronomers find that galaxies are not oriented randomly in space - 66kb Gigantic Galactic Companion Discovered - 40kb M31's strange new star clusters - 86kb Supersized galaxy - 65kb Andromeda times three - 58kb Andromeda's vast starry disk - 76kb Why Galaxies Tilt Just So - 72kb Chandra Finds Evidence for Quasar Ignition - 51kb Spitzer Sees Huge Clouds of Dust Around M82 - 27kb Early Galaxies Looked Similar - 27kb M101 - a Hubble Mosaic - 124kb Pulsars, Neutron Stars and Black Holes Despite Rumors, Black Hole Factory Will Not Destroy Earth - 69kb Origin of the Universe's Most Powerful Magnets - 84kb Mystery Object Found in Supernova's Heart - 34kb NASA's Chandra Solves Black Hole Paradox - 50kb Birth of a Black Hole is Messy, New Observations Suggest - 61kb Dense Matters: Astronomers Peek Inside Neutron Star - 46kb Creation of Black Hole Detected - 40kb Neutron Star Collisions Common, Study Suggests - 42kb Black Hole Swallows Neutron Star, Observations Suggest - 29kb Neutron Star Found Where a Black Hole was Expected - 23kb Surprising Activity from a Dead Star - 29kb Probing neutron stars - 35kb Neutron star shows its crust - 52kb High-speed star flees Tycho's blast - 60kb First Black Hole in Milky Way's Halo Found - 61kb New Spin on Black Holes: Like Stars, They Rotate - 21kb The True Shape of Black Holes - 64kb New Twists on the Milky Way's Big Black Hole - 48kb Black Hole Model - 30kb Twisted Physics: How Black Holes Spout Off - 35kb Tumbling Neutron Star - 99kb When Black Holes Merge - 38kb Black Holes Much More Prevalent than Originally Thought - 60kb Nine years later, black hole still sings the same tunes - 50kb Night of the Living Dead... Stars - 22kb Pulsar Record Smashed - 80kb Feeding The Monster - 53kb Evidence For Black Holes - 62kb Cataclysmic Astronomy Astronomy's "Impossible" Supernova? - 49kb Nuclear Explosion on Recurrent Nova RS Ophiuchi Observed in Unprecedented Detail - 96kb Stellar Sound Waves Set Off Supernovas - 109kb Supernova data multiplies - 58kb Deadly Nearby Gamma Ray Burst is Highly Unlikely - 158kb Relativity and Cosmology Dark matter hides in starless galaxies - 74kb Galaxies give proof of dark matter - 66kb A Five Quasar Gravitational Lens - 184kb Physics in Universe's youth - 20kb Universe in Flux: Constant of nature might have changed - 101kb Einstein's Warped View of Space Confirmed - 74kb The Hunt for Gravity Waves - 72kb Was Einstein Wrong about Space Travel? - 107kb Cosmic Explosion Mystery Deepens - 74kb WMAP Bolsters Case for Cosmic Inflation - 119kb Einstein Passes New Tests - 61kb E=mc² Proven Accurate to One Part in a Million - 107kb Misc Geek Trivia: Elements of surprise - 52kb Germs from space? - 34kb Chaos could keep fusion under control - 54kb Light Travels Backward and Faster than Light - 84kb GAIA Space-Based Observatory to Record a Billion Stars - 56kb Global Positioning and Special Relativity - 55kb Celestial Sleuths Solve Another Munch Mystery - 86kb Invisibility Shield - Really! - 63kb The New Planet Machine - World's Largest Telescope - 209kb RHESSI satellite captures giant gamma-ray flare - 93kb Peering into Planetary Graveyards - 59kb

NASC 108-50

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Generic Syllabus	Generic Syllabus NASC108 (zipped) - 11kb
Customized Syllabus	Syllabus NASC108 (zipped) - 16kb
Long Term Observing Project	Observing Project Descriptions - 12kb Asteroid Observation Project - 1,373kb Supernovae Search Project - 67kb Asteroid Observing List Mar. 15 through Arp. 9, 2008 - 508kb
Guidelines	Guidelines for Writing Lab Reports - 1,088kb
Lunar Heights Lab - Photographs	Features to Identify - 36kb Features to Measure - 66kb Figure 16-4 with features to measure pointed out. - 307kb
Angular Sizes and Distances to a Planet Lab	Angular Sizes and Distances Handout - 36kb
Astrometry of Asteroids Lab	Astrometry of Asteroids Handout - 593kb Astrometry of Asteroids Program Setup - 18,640kb
Astronomical Imaging with Robotic Telescopes Lab	Astronomical Imaging Handout - 3,236kb Imaging Assignment Handout - 28kb To save these images right click and select Save As or Save Link Target As. Dark Frame - 2,056kb Flat Field - 2,056kb Horse001.FIT - 2,056kb IC434 Red Image - 5,235kb IC434 Green Image - 5,235kb IC434 Blue Image - 5,235kb NGC4631 Image - 4,097kb M13 Image number 1 - 2,054kb M13 Image number 2 - 2,054kb M13 Image number 3 - 2,054kb To save these applications right click and select Save As or Save Link Target As. Stellar Magic ver 7.65 Installer - 2,698kb Gimp 2.2.13 Installer - 7,745kb Gimp Help Files - 39,924kb Gimp Animation Pack - 2,543kb To install the Gimp you first need to install the GTK+ runtime appropriate for your version of Windows. GTK+2.6 Runtime Installer for Windows 98, Windows NT4 - 3,558kb GTK+2.10 Runtime Installer for Windows 2000, Windows XP - 5,540kb
Robotic Observing Lab	Tzec Maun Robotic Observing Lab Handout - 27kb
Mercury's Rotation Lab	Mercury's Rotation Handout - 37kb
Saturn's Rotation and Rings Lab	Saturn's Rotation and Rings Lab Handout - 288kb
Spectral Classification Lab	Spectroscopy Lab Handout - 32kb CLEA Spectroscopy Software
Hubble's Law Lab	Hubble's Law Handout - 62kb CLEA Hubble's Law Software