Wednesday and Friday, Sepember 8 and 10
Where are we? presentation

Rotating Sky Explorer used in class to visualize how stars move through the sky in a 24 hour period.

Monday Sepember 13
Three lecture tutorial questions

Seasons simulator

Motion of the Sun Sky explorer. We won't use this in class, but you may find it helpful to play with on your own.

Monday Sepember 20
Eclipses

Retrograde motion of Jupiter and Saturn

Wednesday Sepember 22
Retrograde motion in a Ptolemaic and Copernican system.

Friday Sepember 24
Phases of Venus

Monday Sepember 27
Hunt for Alien Earths - Nova Science Now

Monday October 4
Exoplanet plotting tool

Wednesday October 6
Extreomphiles on Earth
Tardigrades on Earth

Friday October 8
The Drake Equation
Mike Brown on the discovery of Pluto
Neil deGrasse Tyson on Pluto

Monday October 25
A few slides about measuring the presence of elements in stars with spectra.
Dopper shift and light
NIST testing relativity with atomic clocks
Hubble Gotchu

Wednesday November 3
Stellar Sizes movie
CMD movie
HR diagram of the brightest and closest stars

Friday November 5
Watched chapters 2 and 3 of the Secrets of the Sun eposide of The Universe series from the History Channel.

Friday November 12
Neutrino experiments
IceCube experiement construction

Wednesday November 17
We watched Life and Deathe of a Star episode of The Universe, Season 1, Disc 3

Friday November 19 and Monday November 22
The Planetary Nebula Show
Some cool supernova remnants.
Nova podcast about Supernova Event Network.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson on death by black hole.

Monday November 29
Galaxies
Hubble ultra deep field 3D animation
Wednesday December 1
Image and rotation curve of M33

Friday December 10
Neil deGrasse Tyson on the manned space program
Stephen Colbert's view of our place in the universe
Carl Sagan's view of our place in the universe