From:       GarryStasiuk@comcast.net
    Subject:     Astronomy Class --Week1
    Date:     April 7, 2006 11:44:03 PM PDT

Howdy

You can access Cosmic Zoom course material at this url

http://homepage.mac.com/garrystasiuk/Sites/WoF.html

Or you can go to my home page

http://home.comcast.net/~garrystasiuk/


Here's a page of Scientific Visualization  that you might find interesting
(Just scroll down a little to see the thumb nails)

http://terpsichore.stsci.edu/~summers/viz/scviz/scviz.html

The one showing the formation of our moon is quite interesting.

Powers of 10 Cosmic Zooms

Here's a URL that will take you on a voyage  starting from 10 million light years from the Milky way
(You need to have Java installed on your computer for this to work)
Secret Worlds: The Universe Within

View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/



or (You don't need Java for this)

http://www.wordwizz.com/pwrsof10.htm

Or try this one
http://sunshine.chpc.utah.edu/labs/cosmic_zoom/index.htm?ASPIRE_Session=32faaa0f5d8dfc01fe96332c2afe4d54

Here's the URL for Starry Night
http://www.starrynight.com/

Distant Suns
http://www.distantsuns.com/


enjoy

Class 2
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I have updated the url's listed in lesson 1 and 2

The main page with the links is available here
http://homepage.mac.com/garrystasiuk/Sites/WoF.html

You can also access the astronomy lessons from my home web page
http://home.comcast.net/~garrystasiuk/

Remember that all of the blue and underlined lists are links to web pages


Here are some url's I used for some of the planetary images we viewed in class on Tuesday


http://stipo.larc.nasa.gov/nix_collections/nasavideo.html

http://stipo.larc.nasa.gov/nix_collections/solarsystem.html

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/index.html

http://ails.arc.nasa.gov/websites.html

Nest week
What happens when the fusion reaction in our Sun begins to falter (about six billion years from now)

If you have a question 'holler
if that doesn't work send me an e-mail

see you all in class

Class 3
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http://www.extrasolar.net/

http://astrosun2.astro.cornell.edu/academics/courses//astro201/evol_sun.htm

http://www.solarphysics.kva.se/

http://janus.astro.umd.edu/astro/stars/SunsLife.html

http://www.seds.org/messier/elli.html

http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/kboc.html


This web site is dedicated to Science news
via web streaming video
You have to register (it's free)
Really neat stuff here


http://www.athenaweb.org/

This is a link to the Sky & Telescope web site where you cam make your own star charts

http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/skychart/article_1220_1.asp

Class 4

Here are some URL's to augment Tuesday's class
Hubble Movies
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/video/

Stellar Classification
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification
Distant Measurements in Astronomy
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/astro/distance.html#c1
Distant Determination
http://www.missouri.edu/~physwww/astronomy_one/html/distance_determination.html
THE DISCOVERY OF CEPHEID VARIABLES AND THE PERIOD-LUMINOSITY RELATION
http://www.astro.livjm.ac.uk/courses/one/NOTES/Garry%20Pilkington/cepinp1.htm
Cephids and the Distance to the LMC
http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/phys240/lectures/lmc/lmc.html
Stellar ASstronomy
http://www.astro.virginia.edu/class/oconnell/astr130/lec5-f02.html
Stellar Populations and the History of the Universe
http://www.astro.virginia.edu/class/oconnell/astr130/Spops-HistUniv.html