Week of --- Date links to: Your Sky and Sky Maps for the Year / Weather:
  1. Jan20: 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.
    A 3rd quarter moon on Jan21.
    See Drop Dates.
    No classes Monday: MLK Day (UNLV holiday).
  2. Jan27: Lab 1: Constellations (Old Lab 1: Constellations / Lab Supplements).
  3. Feb03: Lab 2: The Sky (Old Lab 2: Celestial Sphere / Lab Supplements).

  4. Feb10: Lab 3: Telescopes (Old Lab 3: Telescopes / Lab Supplements).
  5. Feb17: Lab 10: Stellar Spectra (Old Lab 12: Stellar Spectra / Lab Supplements).
    No classes Monday: Presidents Day (UNLV holiday).
  6. Feb24: Lab 5: Planets (Old Lab 6: Planets / Lab Supplements). Planets etc. in the sky: Moon ☽ N (new moon Feb27), Mercury ☿ N, Venus ♀ Y early in west, Mars ♂ Y, Jupiter ♃ Y, Saturn ♄ N, Uranus ⛢,♅ Y.
    We have good luck with planets in the sky this semester---Mars ♂, Jupiter ♃, and Uranus ⛢,♅ (but it's a challenge to find it).

  7. Mar03: Lab 8: Stars (Old Lab 10: Starlight / Lab Supplements).
  8. Mar10 PDT: Lab 4: The Moon (Old Lab 4: The Moon / Lab Supplements).
    The Moon ☽ is waxing from 1st quarter moon toward full moon, and so this is a good week for the Moon lab. Mars ♂ and Jupiter ♃ will be visible. If you start early enough, Mercury ☿ and Venus ♀ will be visible in the far west.
  9. Mar17: Spring Break: No Labs.
  10. Mar24: Lab 9: Double Stars (Old Lab 11: Double Stars / Lab Supplements).

    Course Evaluations: Since 2023 Fall, these are now entirely under higher control.

  11. Mar31: Lab 11: Galaxies (Old Lab 17: Galaxies / Lab Supplements). Mar25 Monday is a full moon.
  12. Apr07: Lab 12: Cosmos (Old and very incomplete Lab 16: Hubble's Law / Lab Supplements).

  13. Apr14: Makeups / Practice for Lab Final / Early Lab Finals.
    Instructors: The makeup/practice week CANNOT be omitted.
  14. Apr21: Lab Final.
  15. Apr28: 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.
  16. May05: Only by special arrangement with instructors: Very late Makeups / Very late Lab Finals.
  17. May12: Finals week. As always, grades are due on MyUNLV by 4:00 pm on the Tuesday after finals week.

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