PHYS 406 - Introduction to Modern Astronomy

Professor Eberhard Möbius
Fall Semester, 2009

Lab Schedule

TA: Rebecca Barlow

Week Date Tuesday Wednesday Lab/Comments
1 Sept
1 -2
L1: 630 pm
L2: 830 pm
L3: 630 pm

Introduction to Lab Session
2 Sept
8 -9
L1: 630 pm
L2: 830 pm
L3: 630 pm

Observatiory Visit #1!
3 Sept
14, 15
Tuesday,
Sept 15

Planetarium
(L1; L2)
Bus 600 pm
Monday,
Sept 1
4
Planetarium
(L3)
Bus 600 pm
Planetarium week! If you have a serious conflict with your assigned Planetarium Trip, you may switch.
4 Sept
22 - 23
L1: 630 pm
L2: 830 pm
L3: 630 pm

Lab #1: Voyager/SkyGazer Navigation of the Night Sky
Bring your "Astronomy Media Workbook" to the Lab

5 Sept
29-30
L1
L2
L3

Lab #3: Optics Lab; Lenses, Mirrors, and Telescopes (L1,2)

Lab #2: Parallax: Angles, Distances & Sizes (L3)

6 Oct
6 -7
L1
L2
L3

Lab #3: Optics Lab; Lenses, Mirrors, and Telescopes (L3)

Lab #2: Parallax: Angles, Distances & Sizes (L1,2)

7 Oct
13 -14
L1
L2
L3

Lab #4: Computer based Lab on Venus Transit (Length of 1 AU)

Observatory Visit may be Scheduled on short notice from now on; Weather dependent!!

8 Oct
20-21
L1
L2
L3

Lab #5: Computer based Lab: Moons of Jupiter, Jupter's mass

9 Oct
27-28
L1
L2
L3

Lab #6: Computer based Lab: Measuring the speed of light

10 Nov
3-4
L1
L2
L3

Lab #7: Computer based Lab: Asteroids

11 Nov
10
L1
L2

Lab #8: Computer based Lab: H-R Diagram

12 Nov
17 - 18
L1
L2
L3

Lab #9: Computer based Lab: Pleiades (L1, 2)

Lab #8: Computer based Lab: H-R Diagram (L3)

13 Nov
24
L1
L2

No Labs!!

14 Dec
1 -2
L1
L2
L3

Lab #10: Radio Telescope (L1, 2)
Lab #9: Computer based Lab: Pleiades (L3)

14 Dec
8-9
L1
L2
L3

Dec 8: Make-Up Labs
Lab #10
: Radio Telescope (L3)