| A Sense of Scale 3.0 |
Building a scale model of the Universe, is that possible? |
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| Matariki 3.2 |
The heliacal rising of the open star cluster Pleiades and how that relates to the New Year celebrations of the New Zealand Māori |
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| Falling in Space 2.1 |
A primer in Orbital mechanics; How to travel from A to B in space. |
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| Stellar Radiation 2.1 |
The importance of EM-radiation for astronomy, absorption and emission lines, spectroscopy, HR-diagram. |
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| Stellar Evolution 3.0 |
How stars are formed, spend most of their lifetime and how they "die" and mapping of these processes on the HR-diagram. How are the chemical elements formed. |
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Stellar Distance 4.0
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There is no single technique to measure distance in the Universe. Astronomers use the term Cosmic Distance Ladder. We are going to climb that ladder. |
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| Magnitude & Distance 3.0 |
How distance to celestial objects can be obtained from the object's luminosity or magnitude. We discuss flux; magnitude scale; distance modulus; standard candles. |
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