Aug 24: Welcome and Overview of Astronomy 2020

  • Reading - Skim through your textbook Cosmic Perspective: The Solar System, especially looking at the Preface and "How to Succeed in your Astronomy Course" at the beginning of the book.

Time: Monday, Aug 24, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )
Location: Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Dr, Boulder, CO 80309, USA

Aug 26: Why do we explore space?

Time: Wednesday, Aug 26, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )
Location: Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Dr, Boulder, CO 80309, USA

Aug 28: Motion on Earth & in Space

  • Reading - Cosmic Perspective, Section 4.1.

Time: Friday, Aug 28, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )
Location: Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Dr, Boulder, CO 80309, USA

Aug 31: Newton's Laws of Motion

  • Reading - Cosmic Perspective, Section 4.2.

Time: Monday, Aug 31, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )
Location: Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Dr, Boulder, CO 80309, USA

Sep 2: Conservation Laws

  • Reading - Cosmic Perspective, Section 4.3.

Time: Wednesday, Sep 2, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )
Location: Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Dr, Boulder, CO 80309, USA

Sep 4: Energy

  • Reading - Section 4.3 in Cosmic Perspective.

Time: Friday, Sep 4, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )
Location: Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Dr, Boulder, CO 80309, USA

Sep 7: Labor Day Holiday - No Class

Time: Monday, Sep 7, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Sep 9: Gravity & Spacecraft Trajectories

  • Reading - Section 4.5 in Cosmic Perspective.

Time: Wednesday, Sep 9, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )
Location: Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Dr, Boulder, CO 80309, USA

Sep 11: Explorer 1 and Earth's Radiation Belts

Time: Friday, Sep 11, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Sep 14: NASA Projects Mercury & Gemini

Time: Monday, Sep 14, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Sep 16: To the Moon!

Time: Wednesday, Sep 16, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Sep 18: NASA's Project Apollo

Time: Friday, Sep 18, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Sep 21: Exam #1

Time: Monday, Sep 21, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Sep 25: NASA's Commercial Space projects

Time: Friday, Sep 25, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Sep 28: Space Telescopes: Optics

  • Reading - Sections 5.1-5.2 and 6.1-6.3 in Cosmic Perspective.

Time: Monday, Sep 28, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Sep 30: Space Telescopes: Imagers & Spectrographs

  • Reading - Section 6.2 in Cosmic Perspective.

Time: Wednesday, Sep 30, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Oct 2: NASA Visible & IR Space Telescopes

  • Reading - Section 6.3 in Cosmic Perspective.

Time: Friday, Oct 2, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Oct 5: Hubble & James Webb Space Telescopes

  • Reading - Section 6.3 in Cosmic Perspective.

Time: Monday, Oct 5, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Oct 7: Space Telescopes at other wavelengths

  • Reading - Section 6.4 in Cosmic Perspective.

Time: Wednesday, Oct 7, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Oct 9: Artemis: Orion, Gateway, & Human Lander System - guest lecture by T. Cichan

Time: Friday, Oct 9, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Oct 12: Science on the Moon

Time: Monday, Oct 12, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Oct 14: The History and Evolution of the Moon

  • Reading - Sections 8.2 and 9.3 in Cosmic Perspective.

Time: Wednesday, Oct 14, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Oct 16: Properties of the Sun

  • Reading - Sections 14.1-14.2 in Cosmic Perspective.

Time: Friday, Oct 16, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Oct 19: Space Weather

  • Reading - Section 14.2 in Cosmic Perspective.

Time: Monday, Oct 19, 2020, at 10:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Oct 21: Space Radiation

Time: Wednesday, Oct 21, 2020, at 10:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Oct 23: Exam #2

Time: Friday, Oct 23, 2020, at 10:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Oct 26: Robotic & Human Exploration of Mars

  • Reading - Sections 9.2, 9.4 in Cosmic Perspective.

Time: Monday, Oct 26, 2020, at 10:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Oct 28: Exploring Mars

  • Reading - Sections 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.4 in Cosmic Perspective.

Time: Wednesday, Oct 28, 2020, at 10:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Oct 30: The Earth as a Planet

  • Reading - Sections 9.6 & 10.6 in Cosmic Perspective.

Time: Friday, Oct 30, 2020, at 10:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Nov 2: Exploring the Solar System

  • Reading - Chapter 7 in Cosmic Perspective.

Time: Monday, Nov 2, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Nov 4: Mercury

  • Reading - Sections 9.3 and 10.3 in Cosmic Perspective.

Time: Wednesday, Nov 4, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Nov 6: Venus

  • Read - Section 9.5 in Cosmic Perspective.

Time: Friday, Nov 6, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Nov 9: Venus and Climate Change

  • Reading - Section 10.5 in Cosmic Perspective.

Time: Monday, Nov 9, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Nov 11: The Gas Giants: Jupiter & its water-world moons

  • Reading - Sections 11.1-11.2 in Cosmic Perspective.

Time: Wednesday, Nov 11, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Nov 13: The Gas Giants: Saturn & its moons

  • Reading - Chapter 11 in Cosmic Perspective.

Time: Friday, Nov 13, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Nov 16: The Ice Giants: Uranus, Neptune, and their moons

  • Reading - Finish Chapter 11 in Cosmic Perspective.

Time: Monday, Nov 16, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Nov 18: Asteroids

  • Reading - Sections 12.1, 12.2, and 12.5 in Cosmic Perspective.

Time: Wednesday, Nov 18, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Nov 20: Pluto and the Kuiper Belt

  • Reading - Section 12.4 in Cosmic Perspective.

Time: Friday, Nov 20, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Nov 23: Exam #3

Time: Monday, Nov 23, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Nov 25: Einstein and Interstellar Travel

  • Reading - Section 24.5 in Cosmic Perspective.

Time: Wednesday, Nov 25, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Nov 30: Exoplanets

  • Reading - Sections 13.1-13.2 in Cosmic Perspective.

Time: Monday, Nov 30, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Dec 2: The search for extraterrestrial life

  • Reading - Chapter 24 in Cosmic Perspective.

Time: Wednesday, Dec 2, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Dec 4: Class Visit with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine

Time: Friday, Dec 4, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )

Dec 7: Perspective on Space Astronomy & Space Exploration

Time: Monday, Dec 7, 2020, at 11:30am for 60 minutes ( 2 years ago )