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

 

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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:     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.:      Letterman's Top Ten | Imaginary Girlfriend | Homer Simpson | Final Top 10 | Why I Teach | Siri | Join the Air Force

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
 

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
 

Inside Back Cover
 

 
©1996-2022 Gary A. Becker   •   All photographs/diagrams which are noted Gary A. Becker image/graphics are copyrighted.

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