Credit/Permission: For text, © David Jeffery. For figures etc., as specified with the figure etc. / Only for reading and use by the instructors and students of the UNLV astronomy laboratory course.
This is a lab exercise without observations: see Sky map: Las Vegas: current time and Las Vegas weather.
Status: Lab X is under construction and has NOT been beta-tested. Refinements and updates will come as needed.
Sections
We touch on the following topics:
Some of the
Tasks can be completed ahead of the lab period.
Doing some of them ahead of lab period would be helpful.
However, you can print a copy ahead of time if you like especially if
want to do some parts ahead of time.
You might have to compensate for updates in this case.
The Lab Exercise itself is NOT printed in the lab ever.
That would be killing forests
and the Lab Exercise is designed to be an active web document.
General remarks about quiz prep are given at Quiz Preparation.
For DavidJ's lab sections, the quiz prep is doing all the items listed here and self-testing with the
Prep Quiz
and
Prep Quiz Key
if they exist.
Review the parts of the
Celestron C8 telescope
in the figure below.
You should also review the
Observation Safety Rules.
However to complement and/or supplement the reading, you should at least
read the intro of a sample of the articles
linked
to the following keywords etc.
so that you can define and/or understand some keywords etc. at the level of our class.
A further list of keywords which you are NOT required to look at---but it would be useful to do so---is:
Patchy cloud cover may be OK for this lab exercise.
You will have to make a judgment call based on visual inspection of the
sky.
If the sky is going to be heavily clouded, then
an alternative lab exercise without observations (or for which observations are NOT
essential) from the
Introductory Astronomy Laboratory Exercises.
Unfortunately, Lab 2: The Sky is a bit of a long and tedious lab, but
the students do need to cover the topics in it early in the course.
All the Tasks are linked here so that you can find them in the context of
the lab exercise---which should be useful when completing your Report Form.
Any that are semester-section-specific will have to added as needed.
Comments:
Do the preparation required by your lab instructor.
Celestron C8 telescope,
conjunction
(inferior conjunction and
superior conjunction),
elongation
(greatest eastern elongation and
greatest western elongation),
exoplanet,
Kepler's 3 laws of planetary motion,
naked-eye astronomy,
opposition,
planets
(Mercury,
Venus,
Earth,
Mars,
Jupiter,
Saturn,
Uranus,
Neptune,
ex-planet Pluto,
inner planets,
outer planets,
inferior planet,
superior planet),
planetary configuration,
planetary system,
quadrature,
Solar System,
synodic period,
syzygy,
transit method.
Hm.
Task Master:
In this section, we find ...
Goodnight all.
Below are some generic comments for
Lab x: xxx
that may often apply.