Exam 3 Review and practice questions

Instructor: Neal Katz

Office: 532 Graduate Research Tower
Phone: 545-2085
Email: nsk@astro.umass.edu
Office Hours: Tu/Th 2:15 - 3:15 or by appointment

Textbook: Stars and Galaxies, 6th Edition, by Michael Seeds

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Course Information:

• Course Overview and Philosophy
  
• Syllabus
  
• Requirements
  
• Class Notes
  
• Homework
  
• Global Warming Project (due May 5)
  

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This week's sky events from Sky and Telescope

Seasonal images of Earth

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Interesting Astronomical Sites:

• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Space Telescope Public Information
• Images of Nebulae and Galaxies
• Kepler's Second Law
• Welcome to the Planets
• Sky and Telescope: Weekly News Bulletin
• Black Bodies
• Black Holes and Neutron Stars
• Space shuttle and artificial satellite visibility
• Mars Pathfinder
• Mars Global Surveyor
• Cassini mission to Saturn
• Finding planets around other stars
• Heavens Above! (satellite visibility)
• Space Weather (aurorae, meteors, etc.)
• Weather:
  • Local Weather Report
  • Local Radar Animation
  • Northeast U.S. Infrared Satellite Image
  • Today's GMS-5 Satellite Images (Colorized)
  • Current Global Weather Movies
  • EPA Global Warming page
  • El Niño Animation

• UMass Astronomy Projects
  • UMASS Astronomy Home Page
  • Two Micron All Sky Survey Project (2MASS)
  • Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory (FCRAO)
  • Large Millimeter Telescope Project
  • Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS)
  • Infrared/Optical Telescope Array (IOTA)

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