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Week of --- Date
link:
Your Sky and Sky Maps for the Year -
Weather:
- Aug26:
As preparation, read
the Course Website /
Extended Syllabus.
Orientation:
The lab instructor will introduce themself---get their .
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.
- Sep01:
Lab 1: Constellations
(Old Lab 1: Constellations / Lab Supplements).
No labs on Labor Day
Sep01
Monday
(UNLV holiday).
- Sep08:
Lab 2: The Sky
(Old Lab 2: Celestial Sphere / Lab Supplements).
- Sep15:
Lab 3: Telescopes
(Old Lab 3: Telescopes / Lab Supplements).
A full moon
on Oct17 Tuesday.
- Sep22:
Lab 10: Stellar Spectra
(Old Lab 12: Stellar Spectra / Lab Supplements).
- Sep29:
Lab 4: The Moon
(Old Lab 4: The Moon / Lab Supplements).
A 1st quarter moon on Sep29 Monday
and a full moon on Oct06 Monday.
- Oct06:
Lab 8: Stars
(Old Lab 10:
Starlight / Lab Supplements).
- Oct13:
Lab 9: Double Stars
(Old Lab 11: Double Stars / Lab Supplements).
- Oct20:
Lab 11: Galaxies
(Old Lab 17: Galaxies / Lab Supplements).
- Oct27:
Lab 12: Cosmos
(Old and very incomplete Lab 16: Hubble's Law / Lab Supplements).
- Nov03:
Lab 5: Planets
(Old Lab 6: Planets / Lab Supplements).
Planets
etc. in the
sky:
Moon ☽ waxing gibbous moon,
Mercury ☿ visible at 5 pm,
Venus ♀ not visible,
Mars ♂ visible at 5pm,
Jupiter ♃ rising after 9 pm,
Saturn ♄ visible in good position,
Uranus ⛢,♅ visible,
Neptune ♆ visible in good position close to Saturn.
- Nov10:
Makeups
/ Practice for Lab Final /
Early Lab Finals.
Instructors: The makeup/practice week CANNOT be omitted.
No labs on
Veterans Day
Nov11
Tuesay
(UNLV holiday).
So makeup/practice and lab final for Monday sections may need to be pushed on a week.
- Nov17:
Lab Final.
- Nov24: 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
Nov27
Thursday
(UNLV holiday).
- Dec01: Only by special arrangement with instructors:
Very late Makeups /
Very late Lab Finals.
- Dec08: Finals week. As always, grades are due on
MyUNLV by 4:00 pm
on the Tuesday after finals week.
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