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New Fifth Edition Coming Soon! Now available in a new fifth edition, the popular astronomy laboratory manual Astronomers as Observers and Experimenters: Exercises and Projects for the Laboratory and Night Sky integrates new exercises, connections between exercises, as well as all the favorite exercises from past editions - updated to connect to recent discoveries and news in astronomy. Students will gain experience in making meaning out of observations and experiments by using observational results to make models of the universe. The excitement and challenge of the scientific process is evident at every step. Students will recognize astronomy as a human endeavor, with real people needing to make real decisions all along the way. The reader also is prompted to understand uncertainty in measurements and observational bias that is ever-present in astronomy. This edition of the book encourages users to connect the laboratory work to material they are learning elsewhere in the course, placing that laboratory work within the historical evolution of our understanding of the universe. Science as a shining example of human ingenuity, determination and drive to know what is around us comes alive. Instructors will appreciate the flexibility this manual offers. Exercises are simple to use individually and can be adapted to be completed in a single laboratory setting, however long that may be. Many exercises, however, can be extended to connect to other course material or to lead to reflective homework outside of class. Some exercises can be grouped into a larger set of activities pertaining to a topic like, say, the structure of the Milky Way. Other exercises can be developed into full projects as desired.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Processes of Science Learning Goals How to Use This Manual Part I: Sky Observations and Observing Tools Exercise 1: Astronomy as Part of the Scientific Enterprise Exercise 2: Observing Exercises Exercise 3: Star Charts and Catalogues Exercise 4: Atmospheric Extinction of Starlight Exercise 5: Observing with Simple Tools Exercise 6: Angular Resolution Exercise 7: Image Size—Focal Length Relationship Exercise 8: Kirchhoff's Laws and Spectroscopy Part II: Measuring Distance in the Universe Exercise 9: Trigonometric Parallax Exercise 10: Distance to the Pleiades Exercise 11: Distances of Cepheid Variable Stars Exercise 12: Galactic Distances and the Hubble–Lemaître Law Part III: Measuring in the Solar System Exercise 13: Duration of the Sidereal Day Exercise 14: Lunar Features and Mountain Heights Exercise 15: Determining the Mass of the Moon Exercise 16: Evidence of the Earth's Revolution  Exercise 17: Solar Rotation Exercise 18: Measuring the Diameters of Pluto and Charon Exercise 19: Kuiper Belt Objects Exercise 20: Determining the Velocity of a Comet Part IV: Measuring Stars and Galaxies Exercise 21: Proper Motion of a Star Exercise 22: Spectral Classification Exercise 23: Finding the Period of an Eclipsing Binary Star System Exercise 24: Supernova 1987A Exercise 25: Color-Magnitude Diagrams of Open Star Clusters Exercise 26: The Distribution of Star Clusters on the Sky Exercise 27: Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster Exercise 28: The Absolute Magnitude of a Quasar Part V: Projects Project 1: Measuring the Duration of the Sidereal Day Project 2: Modeling the Orbit of the Moon Project 3: Mapping Dust and Gas in the Galaxy Using Cluster Reddening Appendix 1: How to Write Laboratory Reports Appendix 2: How to Handle Data Appendix 3: SC1–SC2 Charts, Star Finder Parts, and Translucent Graph Paper


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  • ISBN-13: 9780757566912
  • Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.
  • Publisher Imprint: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • No of Pages: 322
  • ISBN-10: 075756691X
  • Publisher Date: 07 Dec 2012
  • Binding: Spiral bound
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: A Process Approach


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