Welcome to ASTRONOMY 1110L and 2030L - Fall 2009L

Contact me at loris@physast.uga.edu or in person at 238 Physics

Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00 AM- noon; 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, or by appointment

Phone 706-542-2876 (office); 706-369-1485 (home); 706-207-0714 (cell)

The UGA Observatory phone is 542-7827

My homepage is www.physast.uga.edu/~loris

Course materials: Syllabus and some notes on coordinates and time

How to use : the telescope and the CCD

Before you observe you might check out:

Athens weather and satellite pictures

Sunrise, Sunset, etc. for Athens


THE PROJECTS

  1. A gallery of interesting objects
  2. Astrometry and Scale of the Telescope
  3. Double stars
  4. The Mass of Jupiter and Its Rotation
  5. The Motion of Uranus and Neptune
  6. The Mass of Uranus or Neptune
  7. Asteroids.
  8. Finding Pluto - page 1 page 2 page 3

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Loris Magnani / loris@physast.uga.edu

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