Distant Nature: Astronomy Exercises (view)
Units included with this Open Author resource:
- Introduction
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- Learning goals:
- Understanding of basic astronomical relationships., Visualize the night sky if live observations are not possible., Understand how measurements of physical data are made over great distances.
- Keywords:
- Astronomy Activities, Astronomy
- Using Stellarium with Distant Nature
- Astronomy Exercises
- Reading and Using Star Charts
- Celestial Coordinates
- The Earth's Diurnal Motion
- Earth's Orbital Motion and Seasons
- Phases of the Moon
- Orbits of the Planets
- Phases of Venus
- Kepler's 3rd Law
- Stellar Proper Motion
- The HR Diagram
- Blackbody Radiation
- Our Galaxy, the Milky Way
- Measuring Galactic Distances
- Expansion of the Universe
- The Search for Exoplanets
Summary
“Distant Nature: Astronomy Exercises” is a basic set of Open Educational Resource based astronomy exercises designed to be used as instructional aids in conjunction with textbooks and/or live observational exercises. These Exercises utilize the free planetarium software Stellarium.