Outside Reading Links

The following outside reading will help you further understand the concepts we are covering.

My Astronomy 101 Lecture Notes (only parts are relevant for this course):

• Scale of the Universe and Our Night Sky
• Earth, Moon, Sun, and Sky
• The Electromagnetic Spectrum and Telescopes
• The Interstellar Medium and Starbirth
• Nebulae Map for the Galaxy
• Our Galaxy, the Milky Way
• All About Galaxies

On-Line Reading

• The Sky Tonight
• Understanding Celestial Coordinates (Sky & Telescope)
• Clusters of Clusters: Globular Pairings (Sky & Telescope)
• Deep Sky Objects

On-Line Simulations

• Scale of the Universe
• The Cosmic Distance Scale (really good!)
• Powers of Ten Demonstration
• The Constellations
• SEDS The Messier Objects Catalog
• Image Gallery from National Optical Astronomy Observatory