THE REALLY BIG WORLD OF ASTRONOMY, PART 1

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TO ACE ASTRONOMY IS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS:
ancient astronomy
The Celestial Sphere
Zenith
Nadir
Meridian
the history of astronomy
Aristarchus
Ptolemy
The Copernican Revolution
Kepler’s Laws
p2 = a3
Galileo
Newton
gravity

universal law of gravitation
other applications of gravity
light and the spectrum
emission spectra
absorption spectra
Planck’s Law
properties of light
Wein’s Law
Stefan’s Law
Kirchhoff’s Laws
the doppler effect
reflecting telescopes
refracting telescopes
radio telescopes

the Earth
– Earth’s interior
– the atmosphere
– the turning earth
– the coriolis effect the moon
– origins of the moon
– surface features of the moon
– cratering
– phases and rotation of the moon
– tides