ASTRONOMY RESOURCES
Books:
Astronomy 101 - I LIKE IT. GOOD book. Small, good for traveling.
www.amazon.com/Astronomy-101-Wormholes-Theories-Discoveries/dp/1440563594/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=
OpenStax Astronomy book (other books here that would be helpful, also)
The Wanderers (video link in Chapter one of OpenStax Book)
College AStronomy Courses: Choose your favorite.
I also found an entire Astronomy college course with all of the powerpoints.
Astronomy course powerpoints
The lectures for this course - available on itunes
Here is another online Astronomy course. Great graphics.
Harvard Life Cycle of a Star •Dr. Belinda Wilkes, Professional Astrophysicist (Astronomer) Amazing graphics and charts in this presentation.
hea-www.harvard.edu/~belinda/Lifecycle_May06.ppt
I think this may be the materials I have been looking for:
https://www.chabotcollege.edu/faculty/shildreth/astronomy/lectures.htm
Other Resources:
Crash Course - youtube - Astronomy
Amazing website! Thanks, Matthew! - Crash Course Astronomy with the written scripts alongside the video. Nerdfighteria
The 88 Constellations - Maps
Sky Maps
Google Sky Map app
Season/North Star map
MOSH Planetarium visits
Planetarium for your computer - Stellarium - thanks, Matthew!
Rotating Sky Lab
.Link to Kepler's Laws info
Crash Course Videos -
There are actually already written notes for the first 16 videos. Yay!
Crash Course Notes for #1-16
#1 Intro to Astronomy
#2 Naked Eye Observations
#3 Cycles in the Sky
#4 Moon Phases
#5 Eclipses
#6 Telescopes
Crash Course Videos videos 7-12 - Notes above.
#7 Gravity
#8 Tides
#9 Intro to the Solar System
#10 Sun
#11 Earth
#12 Moon
#13 Mercury
#14 Venus
#15 Mars
#16 Jupiter
#17 Jupiter's Moons
#18 Saturn
#19 Uranus and Neptune
#20 Asteroids
#21 Comets
#22 Oort Cloud
#23 Meteors
#24 Light
#25 Distances
#26 Stars
#27 Exoplanets
#28 Brown Dwarfs
#29 Low Mass Stars
#30 White Dwarfs and Planetary Nebulae
#31 High Mass Stars
#32 Neutron Stars
#33 Black Holes
Sample Questions
Set one of Astronomy questions .
Set 2 Astronomy questions
Set 3 AStronomy questions
Set 4 AStronomy questions - not sure if I ever did them.
Set 5 Astronomy questions.
Set 6 Astronomy questions - need doing also.
Vocab: For starters
Meridian
Celestial Sphere
Zenith
Nadir
Rotation - the earth rotates in 24 hours.
Revolution - the earth revolves around the sun in 365 days
Orbital period - Revolutional period - same thing.
Stellar Parallax - the closer the faster seems to move by
Retrograde Motion - seems to move backwards because you are moving faster
People to know: I am sure there are more. For starters.
Thales
Demotricus 600 BC
Phythyagoreans - Geocentric
Plato -
Aristotle - Earth round
Ptolomy
Aristarchus
Eratostheus - Trig - circumference
Hipparchus - wobble - 26,000 axis is back on the same spot
Books:
Astronomy 101 - I LIKE IT. GOOD book. Small, good for traveling.
www.amazon.com/Astronomy-101-Wormholes-Theories-Discoveries/dp/1440563594/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=
OpenStax Astronomy book (other books here that would be helpful, also)
The Wanderers (video link in Chapter one of OpenStax Book)
College AStronomy Courses: Choose your favorite.
I also found an entire Astronomy college course with all of the powerpoints.
Astronomy course powerpoints
The lectures for this course - available on itunes
Here is another online Astronomy course. Great graphics.
Harvard Life Cycle of a Star •Dr. Belinda Wilkes, Professional Astrophysicist (Astronomer) Amazing graphics and charts in this presentation.
hea-www.harvard.edu/~belinda/Lifecycle_May06.ppt
I think this may be the materials I have been looking for:
https://www.chabotcollege.edu/faculty/shildreth/astronomy/lectures.htm
Other Resources:
Crash Course - youtube - Astronomy
Amazing website! Thanks, Matthew! - Crash Course Astronomy with the written scripts alongside the video. Nerdfighteria
The 88 Constellations - Maps
Sky Maps
Google Sky Map app
Season/North Star map
MOSH Planetarium visits
Planetarium for your computer - Stellarium - thanks, Matthew!
Rotating Sky Lab
.Link to Kepler's Laws info
Crash Course Videos -
There are actually already written notes for the first 16 videos. Yay!
Crash Course Notes for #1-16
#1 Intro to Astronomy
#2 Naked Eye Observations
#3 Cycles in the Sky
#4 Moon Phases
#5 Eclipses
#6 Telescopes
Crash Course Videos videos 7-12 - Notes above.
#7 Gravity
#8 Tides
#9 Intro to the Solar System
#10 Sun
#11 Earth
#12 Moon
#13 Mercury
#14 Venus
#15 Mars
#16 Jupiter
#17 Jupiter's Moons
#18 Saturn
#19 Uranus and Neptune
#20 Asteroids
#21 Comets
#22 Oort Cloud
#23 Meteors
#24 Light
#25 Distances
#26 Stars
#27 Exoplanets
#28 Brown Dwarfs
#29 Low Mass Stars
#30 White Dwarfs and Planetary Nebulae
#31 High Mass Stars
#32 Neutron Stars
#33 Black Holes
Sample Questions
Set one of Astronomy questions .
Set 2 Astronomy questions
Set 3 AStronomy questions
Set 4 AStronomy questions - not sure if I ever did them.
Set 5 Astronomy questions.
Set 6 Astronomy questions - need doing also.
Vocab: For starters
Meridian
Celestial Sphere
Zenith
Nadir
Rotation - the earth rotates in 24 hours.
Revolution - the earth revolves around the sun in 365 days
Orbital period - Revolutional period - same thing.
Stellar Parallax - the closer the faster seems to move by
Retrograde Motion - seems to move backwards because you are moving faster
People to know: I am sure there are more. For starters.
Thales
Demotricus 600 BC
Phythyagoreans - Geocentric
Plato -
Aristotle - Earth round
Ptolomy
Aristarchus
Eratostheus - Trig - circumference
Hipparchus - wobble - 26,000 axis is back on the same spot
