Fall 2012 AY 122 schedule

 

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