SYLLABUS FOR ASTRONOMY LAB 106, Fall 2000

Lab Instructors:	Yuki Kaneko	Landon Freeman	Nate Lewis
Office	Optics Bldg, 430	Optics Bldg, 249	Optics Bldg, 249
Phone:	824-????	824-????	824-????
Email:	kanekoy@email.uah.edu	freemal@email.uah.edu	lewisn@email.uah.edu
Office Hours:			Mo 4-6
Lab Times:	Tu,Th 10:30-12:30	Th 6-8	Mo,Tu 6-8
Lab Manual:	Activities in Astronomy 5th Edition Hoff and Wilkerson, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co. Iowa 1999
Other Lab Material:	Planisphere
Remarks:	Students are required to complete and turn their own lab report at the end of every lab. Be on time, staying late is not permitted. If a student is absolutely unable to attend lab (sick, dead etc.) then that student should contact the lab instructor BEFORE the lab. The student is responsible for arranging to make-up the lab. Do not wait a week, use phone or e-mail to contact your lab TA. The instructor reserves the right to make any changes to the syllabus. For those in morning lab sections, one or two nights may be required for viewing Students missing more than one lab will be assigned a ZERO for the missed labs. To repeat, only ONE make-up lab is permitted. Lab attendance will be taken, and bonus points awarded for perfect attendance. Every student is required to complete a moon log outside the lab for a six week period. The moon log is worth TWO lab grades.

Laboratory Exercises - PH/AST 106, Fall 2000

Observing Project:

• Use Data Log Sheet and copy of SC1 Constellation Chart to record data
• Use simple angle-measuring device from Exercise 2 for angle measurments
• Make observations at least every third day for 6 weeks. Record the phase of the moon for each observation.
• Project due date: Friday, November 17. Turn in at beginning of lecture.

WEEKLY LABS:

1. Measurements and Units Conversions
• A simple Angle-Measuring Device, Exercise 2, part 2.
• Help with conversion sheet handout from lecture
• Measurements and unit conversion (Duckett, Exercise 2)
2. Labor Day HOLIDAY- No Labs
• A good time to start the Moon plot project.
• You might catch the planetarium show at VBAS on Sept 9
3. Star Charts and Catalogues
• Exercise 10 CAIA on constellation charts and planisphere
• Celestial Globe Handout
4. Determining the Mass of the Moon
• Exercise 15 CAIA
• Find g on Earth using a Simple Pendulum
5. Kirchoff's Laws and Spectroscopy
• Exercise 12 CAIA
• Gas discharge and common light sources
6. FALL BREAK - no labs
• Write up that Moon Project!
• Have you been to the Planetarium yet?
7. Field of View of a Telescope
• Exercise 2 part 5 CAIA
• Measure magnification of a Wooten telescope
8. Measuring Distances to Objects of Known Luminosity
• Exercise 31, CAIA
9. Collecting Micrometeorites
• Exercise 19 CAIA
• Magnets and string
10. Solar Rotation
• Exercise 24 CAIA
• Solar observation of sunspots and limb darkening
11. Proper motion of a Star/ Spectral Classification
• Either exercise 25 or 26
12. Supernova 1987A
• Exercise 30