Moravian University Astronomy Text/PowerPoint Presentations

Moravian University Astronomy Text/PowerPoint Presentations Moravian University Astronomy PHYS-108

Subject Index to Astronomy Lessons

Gary A. Becker, Instructor

Student Support

Class Photos

BASN Acknowledgements

Student Data Sheet

Student Info./Syllabus/Class Routine

Crash Course-Read Me

S-01: Introduction to Astronomy S-02: Popular Misconceptions S-03: Archaeoastronomy S-04: Time S-05: Eclipses

S-06: Telescopes/Observing S-07: Solar System Introduction S-08: Earth S-09: Moon S-10: Inner Planets S-11: Outer Planets

S-12: Small Solar System Bodies S-13: The Sun S-14: Stellar Evolution S-15: The Universe

S-16: Sky Literacy Planetarium Programs/Moravian's Telescopes Inside Back Cover Peyton's Astro-Music

Session 1: Introduction

PowerPoint: Lecture Slides

Reading: BASN Text

Class Video: Class Routine Peyton Zankel video

Class Video: Practical Experiments That Will Blow Your Mind Julia Shively video

Class Audio: Discussion Audio: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Peyton Zankel audio

Class Video: Return and Learn: Moravian's Observatories Julia Shively video

Class Video: International Space Station as Viewed from Moravian's Sky Deck Shane S. Cassel video

Assignment for Week Zero: Read/listen to Astrophysics for People in a Hurry following detailed instructions in the syllabus (20 points).

Audio Book: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22

Reading: THE BOOK, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry-Neil deGrasse Tyson

Lab Ex.: Define Astronomy

Lab Ex.: Distill the Word to Its Basic Meaning

YouTube: Powers of Ten

YouTube: The Tush Push Explained with Kyle Brandt and Dr Neil DeGrasse Tyson

YouTube: Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson at Montclair Kimberley Academy

YouTube: A mind-expanding tour of the cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Robert Krulwich

YouTube: Neil deGrasse Tyson with Robert Krulwich: Letters from an Astrophysicist-Audiobook

YouTube: Neil deGrasse Tyson on Choosing a Career

YouTube: Neil deGrasse: UFO's, Scientific Process, Dark Matter

YouTube: Carl Sagan: Intro. to Pale Blue Dot

Reading: Isaac Asimov: The Last Question

Self-Test: Introduction to Astronomy Study Guide

Session 2: Popular Misconceptions

PowerPoint: Lecture Slides

Reading: BASN Text

Class Video: Basic Science Demonstrations Peyton Zankel video

YouTube: Plasma Balls Explained

Class Video: Harvard Misconceptions Peyton Zankel video

Transcript: Harvard Misconceptions-Lunar Phases: Transcript

Class Video: Misconceptions about the Moon/Librations Peyton Zankel video

Transcript: Moon/Seasons Misconceptions: Transcript

Class Video: Reasons for the Seasons Peyton Zankel video

YouTube: Harvard: A Private Universe

Class Audio: Reasons for the Seasons: Audio Peyton Zankel audio

PowerPoint: The Seasons

YouTube: Phases of the Moon (watch first)

YouTube: Phases and Motions of the Moon (Watch second) Launch Pad Astronomy

YouTube: Why Do We Have Different Seasons? | California Academy of Sciences

YouTube: NASA s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter PHASES/LIBRATONS-2013

YouTube: NASA s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter PHASES/LIBRATONS-2014

YouTube: NASA s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter PHASES/LIBRATONS-2015

YouTube: NASA s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter PHASES/LIBRATONS-2016

YouTube: NASA s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter PHASES/LIBRATONS-2017

YouTube: NASA s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter PHASES/LIBRATONS-2018

YouTube: NASA s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter PHASES/LIBRATONS-2019

YouTube: NASA s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter PHASES/LIBRATONS-2020

YouTube: NASA s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter PHASES/LIBRATONS-2021

YouTube: NASA s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter PHASES/LIBRATONS-2022

YouTube: NASA s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter PHASES/LIBRATONS-2023

YouTube: NASA s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter PHASES/LIBRATONS-2024

YouTube: Tides Neil deGrasse Tyson

Climate Change

YouTube: Global Temperature Increases: 1850-2020

YouTube: Global Temperature Increases: 1880-2019

YouTube: Global Sea Level Rise since 1993

YouTube: Earth's Recent Climate Spiral

Lab Ex.: Harvard Misconceptions Lab

Lab Ex.: Know the Moon's Phases

Lab Ex.: Rhythm of the Moon's Phases

Lab Ex.: Does the Moon Rotate?

Lab Ex.: Lunar Phases, Orbital Period, Distance, Librations Lab

Lab Ex.: Lunar Phases, Orbital Period, Distance, Librations Slides

Lab Ex.: Geometry of the Seasons

Lab Ex.: Understanding the Seasons

Lab Ex.: Season's Graph

Lab Ex.: Seasons Graphic Organizer

Music: Blue Moon: Frank Sanatra

Music: Crescent Moon: Cowboy Junkies

Self-Test: Popular Misconceptions in Astronomy Study Guide

Session 3: Archaeoastronomy

PowerPoint: Lecture Slides

Reading: BASN Text

Class Video: Reasons for the Seasons

Class Video: Calendar Makers/Stonehenge Julia Shively video

Class Video: Stonehenge Julia Shively video

Class Video: Chaco: Pueblo Bonito Julia Shively video

Class Video: Pueblo Bonito to the End of the Unit Julia Shively video

Reading: A Sky for All Seasons, Edwin Krupp

Transcript: Moon/Seasons Misconceptions: Transcript

WWWeb: Chaco Culture National Historical Park

YouTube: The Mystery of Chaco Canyon (Poor quality, excellent information)

YouTube: EXPLORING CHACO CANYON (With History, Information, Hikes, etc.)

YouTube: Chaco Culture National Historical Park (Excellent video quality, some misinformation)

YouTube: Chimney Rock: Ancestral Temple of the Sky (Excellent information)

YouTube: Decline and Dissolution of the Chacoan World

YouTube: Chaco Canyon: Mysteries & Magic with GB Cornucopia and Cherilynn Morrow

YouTube: The Cannibals Of The Four Corners | Timeline

YouTube: Supernova Pictograph

YouTube: Chacoan Astronomy, Cosmography, Roads & Ritual Power

YouTube: EXPLORING CHACO CANYON: History, Information, Hikes, etc.

YouTube: Studying Southwestern Archaeology by Dr. Steve Lekson | What Was Chaco, Really? (Lekson)

YouTube: A History of the Ancient Southwest (Lekson)

YouTube: Episode 2: Age Of Ancestors | The World of Stonehenge (view first)

YouTube: Episode 3: Age Of Cosmology | The World of Stonehenge (view second)

YouTube: Episode 1: Age Of Ice | The World of Stonehenge (completes series)

YouTube: Stonehenge Secrets Revealed | Digging For The Truth

YouTube: Standing with Stones - an epic journey through prehistoric Britain & Ireland

YouTube: Decoding the ancient astronomy of Stonehenge

YouTube: Uncovering the secrets of Stonehenge

YouTube: Megalith Movers: Building Stonehenge

YouTube: Solving The Mystery Of Stonehenge With Dan Snow

YouTube: New scientific discoveries: reinterpreting Stonehenge

YouTube: The Mystery of Stonehenge, Part 2 - 1965

YouTube: The Ancient Murdered Skeleton Found Under Stonehenge

YouTube: Stonehenge 360 Degrees

Lab Ex.: Top-Ten-Reasons

Lab Ex.: Mysterious Pueblo Bonito

Lab Ex.: Archaeoastronomy Bubble

Lab Ex.: Changing Sun-Moon Positions

Lab Ex.: Kisha's-Ancestral-Puebloan-Assignment

Lab Ex.: Light My Tree

Lab Ex.: Save Your People Marry That Girl

Lab Ex.: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

Lab Ex.: Stonehenge-Lab

Lab Ex.: Understanding the Seasons

Lab Ex.: Season's Graph

Self-Test: Archaeoastronomy Study Guide

Session 4: Time and Coordinate Systems

Reading: Time-BASN Text

YouTube: The Clock That Changed the World (BBC History of the World)

YouTube: Getting Started in Celestial Navigation-12-Lessons

Session 5: Solar and Lunar Eclipses

PowerPoint: Lecture Slides

Reading: BASN Text

Class Video: Eclipses Shown to Scale-Video Peyton Zankel video

Class Video: Eclipse Talk, Repetition of Eclipses-Video Peyton Zankel video

Class Audio: Eclipse Talk, Repetition of Eclipses-Audio Peyton Zankel audio

Transcript: Eclipse Talk, Repetition of Eclipses-Transcript

Class Video: Gear and Techniques, Lunar Eclipses-Fall 2020 Video Peyton Zankel video

Class Video: Gear and Techniques-Spring 2021 Video Peyton Zankel video

Reading: Aspects and Motions of the Moon: Eclipses, George Abell

YouTube: The Moon s Orbit and Eclipses Launch Pad Astronomy

YouTube: The Great Baja Eclipse: Hypes 1999 Eclipse

YouTube: Still Hooked: Hypes 2017 Eclipse and Others

YouTube: Total Solar Eclipse - Svalbard. March 20, 2015

YouTube: You owe it to yourself to experience a total solar eclipse | David Baron

YouTube: Baily's Beads

YouTube: Solar Projection of Eclipse Using a Tree

YouTube: Shadow Bands: Watch until totality

YouTube: Shadow Bands Explained

YouTube: Moon's Shadow During Eclipse: High Altitude Balloon

YouTube: A Total Lunar Eclipse Over Tajikistan, Jean-Luc Dauvergne

YouTube: A Martian Annular Eclipse: Phobos Crosses the Sun

Excitement: When Day Became Night: A Special Report on the 2017 Solar Eclipse

Excitement: Alaska Airlines Great American Eclipse Flight #9671

Excitement: Oh My God

Excitement: Total Solar Eclipse (2017)

Excitement: Space Station Transiting 2017 ECLIPSE, My Brain Stopped Working Smarter Every Day 175

Music: Bonnie Tyler Total Eclipse of the Heart (Video)

Music: You're so Vain Carly Simon

Humor: Simpson's: Marge goes blind after viewing a total solar eclipse

Humor: Simpson's: Homer misses the total solar eclipse because it is pork chop night

Humor: Simpson's: A eclipse stops the runaway solar monorail

Lab Ex.: Distill the Definition

Self-Test: Solar and Lunar Eclipse Study Guide

Session 6: Telescopes/Observing

PowerPoint: Lecture Slides

Reading: BASN Text

Class Video: Make A Drawing Through A Telescope Peyton Zankel video

Class Video: What Makes A Good Telescope? Peyton Zankel video

Class Video: History, Economizing, and Identifying Telescopes Peyton Zankel video

Reading: Telescopes in General, Neale Howard

Reading: Telescopes in Particular, Neale Howard

Reading: Appendix-4: Syncing Mount and Telescope to Sky BASN Text

Lab Ex.: Make A Drawing Through A Telescope

Lab Ex.: Identify the Telescope Flowchart

Lab Ex.: Identify Telescopes and Mounting Systems

Lab Ex.: Identify the Celestial Objects

Lab Ex.: Celestial Object To Be Identified

Lab Ex.: FALL Objects to Observe on the Sky Deck

Lab Ex.: SPRING Objects to Observe on the Sky Deck

Lab Ex.: Rules for the Lunar Photo Contest

Lab Ex.: Lunar Photo Contest-2022

Lab Ex.: Lunar Photo Contest-2023

Lab Ex.: Lunar Photo Contest-2024

YouTube: The Simpsons: Bart's Comet

YouTube: #6 Telescopes: Crash Course Astronomy

YouTube: Teles/copes: A Buyer's Guide - The Night Sky -

YouTube: Tips For The First-Time Telescope Owner - The Night Sky

YouTube: Choosing Your First Telescope" with J. Kelly Beatty

YouTube: How to use an Equatorial Mount for Beginners

YouTube: How to Align a Finderscope for New Astronomers

YouTube: Cherry Springs: Black Forest Star Party

Moravian's Robotic Telescope, Hanksville, Utah

MDRS Ob.: Skynet

MDRS Ob.: VOL 1 MDRS Robotic Observatory-REGISTER PP

MDRS Ob.: Skynet Introduction-tutorial video

MDRS Ob.: Taking Your First Image-tutorial video

MDRS Ob.: Downloading Images-tutorial video

MDRS Ob.: Color-Imaging-tutorial video

MDRS Ob.: Stacking Images-tutorial video

Tutorial: Calibration Frames Explained

Self-Test: Instrumentation Study Guide

Session 7: Solar System Introduction

PowerPoint: Lecture Slides

Reading: BASN Text

WWWeb: Solar System: Scott S. Sheppard

YouTube: Solar System Drawn to Scale: If the Moon were Just One Pixel

YouTube: Planets of the Solar System: Tilts and Spins

Session 8: Earth

PowerPoint: Lecture Slides

Reading: BASN Text

Session 9: Moon

PowerPoint: Lecture Slides

Reading: BASN Text

YouTube: Lunar Geology: Apollo 13 Views of the Moon

Session 10: Inner Planets

PowerPoint: Inner Planets-Cratering-Lecture Slides

PowerPoint: Mars-Lecture Slides

Reading: BASN Text

YouTube: NASA: Live from the International Space Station

YouTube: NASA: Prerecorded from the International Space Station

YouTube: NASA: Mars In 4Ks

YouTube: NASA: Mars Curiosity Rover Pictures

YouTube: NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Landing Animations

YouTube: NOVA: Looking for Life on Mars

YouTube: Mars Calling-4K

Session 11: Outer Planets

Reading: BASN Text

Session 12: Small Solar System Bodies

PowerPoint: Comets, Meteors-Lecture Slides

Reading: BASN Text

PowerPoint: Hounds Build a Comet-Lecture Slides

PowerPoint: Meteorites-Lecture Slides

Session 13: The Sun

PowerPoint: Lecture Slides

Reading: BASN Text

Session 14: Stellar Evolution

PowerPoint: Lecture Slides

Reading: BASN Text

Class Video: Introduction to Stellar Distances-Fall 2020

Class Video: Introduction to Stellar Distances-Spring 2021

Class Video: Distance Modulus to Spectra

Class Video: Black Body Radiation to Emission Spectra

Class Video: Bohr Atom to Absorption Spectrums

Class Video: Hertzsprung-Russell diagram

Class Video: Stellar Birth

Class Video: Stellar Life Cycles and the H-R Diagram

Lab Ex: Parallax Lab-Orion-PDF | Parallax Lab-Scorpius-PDF

Lab Ex: Parallax: Begin at 1 hr. 18 min. 26 sec.

Lab Ex: Significant Number Rules-PDF

Lab Ex: Great Summer Triangle Lab-PDF

Lab Ex: Great Summer Triangle Lab-Instructional Video-Distance Modulus

Lab Ex: Great Summer Triangle Lab-Class Instructional Video

Lab Ex: Emission Spectrum Lab-PDF

Lab Ex: Emission Spectrums to be Identified for Lab-PDF

Lab Ex: Emission Spectrum Lab-Instructional Video

Lab Ex: Absorption Spectrum Lab-PDF

Lab Ex: High Resolution Absorption Spectrum

Lab Ex: Absorption Spectrum Lab-Instructional Video

Lab Ex: Construction of an H-R Diagram Lab-PDF

Lab Ex: Hertzsprung-Russell diagram

Lab Ex: Determining the Age of Star Clusters-PDF

Lab Ex: Determining the Age of Star Clusters-Instructional Video

YouTube: Light and Temperature Launch Pad Astronomy

YouTube: Spectroscopy LPA

YouTube: Analyzing Starlight Part 1: Brightness LPA

YouTube: Analyzing Starlight Part 2: Colors LPA

YouTube: Analyzing Starlight Part 3: Stellar Spectral Classification LPA

YouTube: How Stars Work LPA

YouTube: Seeing Color: Arbor Scientific | Electromagnetic Spectrum: Montana Tech | #23 Light Crash Course Astronomy

YouTube: #24 Distance Crash Course Astronomy

Self-Test: Quest Questions Light and Distance

YouTube: HR Diagram Explained

YouTube: Module 9 / Lecture 3 : The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram

YouTube: Stars and Galaxies: The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram

YouTube: Star Formation Launch Pad Astronomy

YouTube: How the Sun will REALLY Die Launch Pad Astronomy

YouTube: The Smallest Stars in the Universe-Red Dwarfs Launch Pad Astronomy

YouTube: #26 Stars in General Crash Course Astronomy

YouTube: #29 Low Mass Stars Crash Course Astronomy

Self-Test: Quest Questions H-R Diagram, Stellar Birth, Stars in General, Low Mass Stars

YouTube: How massive stars die - with a BANG!

YouTube: Neutron Stars, Pulsars, and Magnetars Launch Pad Astronomy

YouTube: The Physics of Black Holes

YouTube: Monster Black Holes

YouTube: #30 White Dwarfs and Planetary Nebulae Crash Course Astronomy

YouTube: #31 High Mass Stars Crash Course Astronomy

YouTube: #32 Neutron Stars Crash Course Astronomy

YouTube: #33 Black Holes Crash Course Astronomy

Self-Test: Quest Questions White Dwarfs, Planetary Nebulae, High Mass Stars, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes

Self-Test: Animation: Black Hole Destroys Star

Self-Test: Visualization: A Black Hole Accretion Disk

Self-Test: Stellar Evolution Study Guide

Harry C.: Do I Feel Lucky PUNK?

Session 15: The Universe

Reading: BASN Text

YouTube: 'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss

YouTube: TIMELAPSE OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE 13.8 billion years

YouTube: TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time

Session 16: Sky Literacy

Reading: BASN Text

Planetarium Programs/Moravian's Telescopes

Reading: Appendix-1: Planetarium Programs BASN Text

Reading: Appendix-2: Using Moravian's Telescopes BASN Text

Reading: Appendix-3: Aligning the Telescope to Polaris BASN Text

Reading: Appendix-4: Syncing Mount and Telescope to Sky BASN Text

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