ASTR 103/104 Astronomy
Here are the lecture notes and labs for my
astronomy class at Kenai Peninsula
College.
After I had published monthly
columns with the Scottsbluff Star Herald in
Since there are already plenty of GREAT astronomy web sites, I tried not to
duplicate content, but rather present something in addition (see my Retrograde motion lab, the Summary of Stellar Properties, and
my Eclipse animations). And I
also employ a lecture style that should get you to look up many of the other
sites.
These pages created and maintained by:
Andreas Veh, E-mail: aveh@uaa.alaska.edu
KPC Assistant Professor for Physics and
Astronomy
Here is a short instructor biography.
Credits:
Many images are my own, shot with a 50 mm
camera.
Several images are courtesy NASA (AURA,
STScI, HST). All their images "are obtainable
royalty-free."
Star maps were done with Redshift, (c) Maris
Multimedia.
Animations were created with Redshift,
(c) Maris Multimedia, and GIF construction Set, (c) Alchemy Mindworks
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My wife Kate and I are happy to have moved back to |
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Many thanks go to:
Jackie Gregory, WNCC
Multimedia Specialist
Paul Jacobsen, WNCC
Multimedia Director
Since my web pages take up a
lot of space (especially images), I decided for now to have very few of
my web pages on the KPC server, thus the links presented here point to PHYS-1070 Astronomy at WNCC . This class at WNCC offers 4 semester credits and covers the solar
system and stellar structure and evolution, i.e. about eighty percent of a
college astronomy textbook.
The following was used for my presentation at
the 2006 Winter Meeting in
Teaching lab sciences online
Is it possible and desirable to teach and learn sciences
online? What about the labs? I will discuss the pros and cons of various
sciences – Astronomy, Chemistry, Physics – as candidates for online
delivery, the advantages and difficulties for assigning labs, as well as the
intricacies of various courseware – WebCT and Blackboard – and
software and ancillaries, such as Redshift, CLEA, ChemCollective,
learner.org’s Mechanical Universe streaming video, and the web sites
accompanying textbooks. I have taught Introduction to Astronomy for 14
semesters through WNCC in
More information and links at
http://chinook.kpc.alaska.edu/~ifafv/
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Courseware |
Software and Ancilliaries |
some Textbook web sites |
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Redshift 3 and 5 |
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Project
CLEA |
Hewitt:
Physical Science, Conceptual Physics |
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ChemCollective |
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learner.org |