Instruction begins Tuesday 8/28 and ends Tuesday 11/27. Class meets 14 times. We begin a new lab on the dates indicated below, and the lab report from the previous activity is due at 6:00PM on the day that we start a new lab, i.e., the first lab is due on September 11.
August
28
Lab
# 1: Photon Counting Experiment
September
4
11 Lab
#2: Measuring the Earth's Radius
18 field trip to the Central Valley
25
October
2 Lab #3: Astronomical Spectroscopy
9 [ field trip to Leuschner Observatory - TBC]
16 Lab #4: Detecting a Planet Around Another Star
23 remote observations with Leuschner Observatory
30
November
6 Lab #5: Imaging Complex Astronomical Objects (remote observations with Leuschner Observatory)
13 remote observations with Leuschner Observatory
20 remote observations with Leuschner Observatory
27