Instructor: James Lowenthal

Office: McConnell Hall, Room 412
Phone: 585-6995
Email: jlowenth@smith.edu
Office Hours: Mon 2:30-3:30, Wed 1:30-2:30, or by appointment

Textbook: The Cosmic Perspective, 4th Edition, by Bennett, Donahue, Schneider, and Voit
Available in the Grecourt Bookshop

Course Information:

• Overview, Syllabus, and Requirements
  
• Homework
  

Exam 1 Review (PDF)

Exam 2 Review (PDF)

Final Exam Review (PDF)

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Mastering Astronomy website

This week's sky events from Sky and Telescope

Seasonal images of Earth

Galaxy crash movie Summers, Mihos, and Hernquist

Galaxy formation movie Ed Bertschinger

Large scale structure formation movies Ben Moore, Univ. Durham (UK)

Chris Mihos' Galaxy Crash applet.

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Interesting Astronomical Sites:

• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Space Telescope Public Information
• Images of Nebulae and Galaxies
• Views of the Solar System
• Welcome to the Planets
• Sky and Telescope: Weekly News Bulletin
• Black Holes and Neutron Stars
• Space shuttle and artificial satellite visibility
• Mars Pathfinder
• Mars Global Surveyor
• Cassini mission to Saturn
• Finding planets around other stars
• Heavens Above! (satellite visibility)
• Space Weather (aurorae, meteors, etc.)
• Weather:
  • Local Weather Report
  • Local Radar Animation
  • Northeast U.S. Infrared Satellite Image
  • Today's GMS-5 Satellite Images (Colorized)
  • Current Global Weather Movies
  • EPA Global Warming page
  • El Niño Animation

• Local Astronomy Research Projects
  • Five College Astronomy Department
  • UMASS Astronomy Home Page
  • Two Micron All Sky Survey Project (2MASS)
  • Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory (FCRAO)
  • Large Millimeter Telescope Project
  • Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS)
  • Infrared/Optical Telescope Array (IOTA)

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