Astronomy 104 |
ANNOUNCEMENTS | |
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Test 3 is on Friday6, April 26. |
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Students must
have a scantron (#16485)
and a pencil (no pen) for each class. (This adds up to ~25 scantrons for the whole semester.) |
Click for today's look. |
No planets are up early night. They are only coming in the Fall.
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News
1. Red novae are
merging
stars!
2. New models of the NASA's DART
impact reshaping the asteroid moon
Dimorphos show that this object is 'rubble
all the way down'.
3. New
moons of Uranus and Neptune have
been discovered.
4. One of the stars we
observe in the labs (during the winter),
eta Geminorum, is orbited by two
companion stars, one of which is
surrounded by a recently
discovered disk of dust .
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Unusual events and objects
(Students might want to ask help in how to use the coordinates, ephemerids and finder charts.)
The presentations
used in class, the class syllabus.
Information on tests, the lab pages, the instructor's home page.
The department's home page. Look at these fancy magazines, the Sky and Telescope and Astronomy.