Week of --- Date link: Your Sky and Sky Maps for the Year - Weather:
  1. Aug24: As preparation, read the Course Website / Extended Syllabus.
    Orientation: The lab instructor will introduce themself---get their NAME/EMAIL. We will then run over the Course Website / Extended Syllabus, lab instructor-specific items, and, at the lab instructor's discretion, have an intro to using TheSky software. Also, at the lab instructor's discretion, the labs can begin on the first night thereby advancing the whole Lab Schedule by one week.
    See Drop Dates.
  2. Aug31: Lab 1: Constellations (Old Lab 1: Constellations / Lab Supplements).
  3. Sep07: Lab 2: The Sky (Old Lab 2: Celestial Sphere / Lab Supplements).
    No labs on Labor Day Sep07 Monday

  4. Sep14: Lab 3: Telescopes (Old Lab 3: Telescopes / Lab Supplements).
  5. Sep21: Lab 4: The Moon (Old Lab 4: The Moon / Lab Supplements).
    A waxing gibbeous on Sep 21 Monday and a full moon on Sep26 Saturday.
  6. Sep28: Lab 10: Stellar Spectra (Old Lab 12: Stellar Spectra / Lab Supplements).

  7. Oct05: Lab 8: Stars (Old Lab 10: Starlight / Lab Supplements).
  8. Oct12: Lab 9: Double Stars (Old Lab 11: Double Stars / Lab Supplements).
  9. Oct19: Lab 5: Planets (Old Lab 6: Planets / Lab Supplements).
    Planets etc. in the sky: Moon ☽ waxing gibbous moon, Mercury ☿ visible at 6 pm, Venus ♀ visible at 5 pm, Mars ♂ not visible, Jupiter ♃ not visible, Saturn ♄ visible in good position, Uranus ⛢,♅ visible at 10 pm, Neptune ♆ visible in good position close to Saturn.

  10. Oct26: Lab 11: Galaxies (Old Lab 17: Galaxies / Lab Supplements).
  11. Nov02: Lab 12: Cosmos (Old and very incomplete Lab 16: Hubble's Law / Lab Supplements).
  12. Nov09: Makeups / Practice for Lab Final / Early Lab Finals.
    Instructors: The makeup/practice week CANNOT be omitted.
    No labs on Veterans Day Nov11 Tuesday (UNLV holiday).
    So makeup/practice and lab final for Monday sections may need to be pushed on a week.

  13. Nov16: Lab Final.
  14. Nov23: Only by special arrangement with instructors: Late Makeups / Late Lab Finals.
    Instructors: The late makeup/final week CANNOT be omitted---unless there are absolutely NO students in need of it.
    No labs on Thanksgiving Nov26 Thursday (UNLV holiday).
  15. Nov30: Only by special arrangement with instructors: Very late Makeups / Very late Lab Finals.
  16. Dec07: Finals week. As always, grades are due on MyUNLV by 4:00 pm on the Tuesday after finals week.

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