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Classroom Astronomer
The Magazine for the Teachers of Astronomy
The
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The Magazine for the Teachers of Astronomy
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| Measuring Star Brightness Using a Digital Camera | The following are HUGE files. It
is best to right-click and do a Save Target As... to obtain the files. A 31- Megabyte stacked images practice file. 10 each darks (darks.zip, 57 Megs), flats (flats.zip, 80 Megs), images (images.zip, 67 Megs). Detailed explanations of magnitude and color corrections |
The Citizen Sky group. www.citizensky.org/ Discussion of what Air Mass means in astronomy.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Airmass. The Citizen Sky 10 Star Tutorial http://www.aavso.org/sites/default/files/10startutorial.pdf. A tutorial on photometry http://www.citizensky.org/content/dslr-documentation-and-reduction. The Carte du Ciel program and Hipparcos catalogs can be found at http://www.ap-i.net/skychart/start. AIP4WIN software and book: http://www.willbell.com/aip/index.htm. IRIS software http://www.astrosurf.com/buil/us/iris/iris.htm. Maxim DL http://www.cyanogen.com/maxim_main.php. |
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| Visual Spectroscopy and the Borders of the Colors | Borders
of the Colors blank spreadsheet Blank Calibration Chart and Lab Worksheet |
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| Digital Spectroscopy -- Light with a Laptop | Spectra
of Street Lights Unknown Light Source Activity |
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| Measuring Galaxy Spectra for Velocities | Spectra of NGC 1832 | http://vizier.cfa.harvard.edu/. The Vizier astronomy database service, which holds the Kennicutt Spectrophotometric Atlas of Galaxies. | |
| Demonstrating the Loss of Starlight | The Light Shielding Demonstration and other activities
including a high school level School Outdoor Lighting Audit are at
www.darkskiesawareness.org/DarkSkiesRangers/Dark_Skies_Rangers_Lessons/.
There is an Astronomy community in the SPIE Newsroom, http:// spie.org/x2418.xml?WT.svl=mddn3 . |
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| Using Spectra to Determine Planetary Nebulae Properties | http://web.williams.edu/Astronomy/research/PN/nebulae/.
Database of Planetary Nebulae Spectra, with activities. |
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| Photos Focused On: Teacher at the
Telescope, Getting Spectra |
Example
Stellar Spectra, Standards and Unknowns BOAO Tour slide show (coming soon) |
BOAO All Sky Camera Visibility Graph Generator |
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