Support Equipment

  • 8 - 00.00 - Support Equipment used for Astronomy
  • 8-00.01 - Astronomy Simulations and Animations from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Measurement

  • 1A10.41/8A10.80 - Geochron/Analemma
  • 1A60.10 - Powers of 10

Orbits

  • 1L20.10/8B40.40 - Gravity Well - Black Hole
  • 1L20.30 - Escape Velocity (Escape from a Gravity Well)
  • 1L20.40 - Conical Sections
  • 1L20.50 - Ellipse Maker
  • 1L20.60/8A05.40 - Kepler's Laws
  • 1L20.66/7D30.90 - Orbits on the Overhead/Mass Spectrometer Model

 

Rotational Dynamics

  • 1Q30.40 - Fluctuating Magnetic Fields/Cons. of Angular Momentum

 

Statics of Fluids

  • 2B40.55 - Particle Diffusion In Stellar Medium - Percolation & Convection Cells

 

Wave Motion

  • 2C40.90 - Shock Wave Fronts: Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
  • 3B25.67 - Culvert Whistlers
  • 3B45.13 - Shock Wave Fronts - Hydraulic Jump

 

Heat and the First Law

  • 4B50.60/8A70.40 - The Greenhouse Effect

 

Photometry

  • 6B10.25 - Wein's Law - Planetary Sunlight Intensity
  • 6B40.10 - Variac and Light Bulb
  • 6B40.30 - Black Body Radiation

 

Kirchoff's Law and Spectroscopy

  • 7B10.10 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Emission Lines
  • 7B10.11 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Flame Salts
  • 7B10.15 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Gas Discharge
  • 7B10.20 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Mercury Emission Lines
  • 7B11.15 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Sodium Absorption
  • 7B11.60 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - "Glo-doodler"
  • 7B11.65 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Rare Earths, Didymium Glass
  • 7B11.75 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Chlorophyll
  • 7B11.80 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Food Coloring
  • 7B11.85 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Copper Compounds - "Vanish"

 

Radioactivity

  • 7D10.80 - Cosmic Rays

 

Superstring Theory

  • 8-Mani and Calabi - Yau - 4 Manifold, Calabi - Yau, Gosset 421 Polytope

Planetary Astronomy

 

Historical Astronomy

  • 8A05.05 - Historical Astronomy
  • 8A05.10 - Calendar Wheels
  • 8A05.15 - Stonehenge - Megaliths
  • 8A05.20 - Constellations
  • 8A05.25 - Sky Atlas - Sky Charts
  • 8A05.30 - Eratosthenes' Measurement of Earth's Radius
  • 8A05.35 - Ptolemaic and Copernican Models of the Solar System
  • 8A05.40 - Kepler's Laws
  • 8A05.50 - Circular Sundial
  • 8A05.60 - Cross-Staff
  • 8A05.65 - Meridian Transit - Theodolite
  • 8A05.70 - Celestial Navigation Instruments - Sextants - Astro-compass
  • 8A05.75 - Quadrant / Astrolabe
  • 8A05.80 - Artificial Horizon
  • 8A05.85 - Chronometer
  • 8A05.90 - Heliostat

 

Solar System Mechanics

  • 8A10.05 - Origin of the Solar System
  • 8A10.10 - Orrery Model
  • 8A10.15 - Scale Model Demos of the Solar System
  • 8A10.20 - Locating Stars
  • 8A10.22 - Tracking Stars, Sun, and Moon
  • 8A10.25 - Diurnal Astronomy
  • 8A10.30 - Planispheric Planetarium
  • 8A10.40 - Sidereal Time
  • 8A10.50 - Procession of the Equinox
  • 8A10.70 - Sunrise - Sunset/Refracted Sun
  • 8A10.75 - Distortion Due to Refraction by Earth's Atmosphere
  • 8A10.80 - Analemma
  • 8A10.90 - Apparent Motion of the Sun

 

Earth-Moon Mechanics

  • 8A20.05 - Earth's Seasons
  • 8A20.15 - Lunar Phases - Terminator Line Demo
  • 8A20.19 - Phases of the Planets
  • 8A20.20 - Albedo
  • 8A20.22 - Eccentricity of the Moon's Orbit
  • 8A20.25 - Eclipse - Eclipse Model
  • 8A20.30 - Eclipse - Solar Eclipse
  • 8A20.35 - Eclipse - Lunar
  • 8A20.37 - Eclipse Models and Umbra/Penumbra Demos
  • 8A20.40 - Transit - Mercury & Venus
  • 8A20.45 - Occultation
  • 8A20.50 - Earth/Moon System - Center of Mass
  • 8A20.55 - Earth/Moon System - Communications
  • 8A20.60 - Earth/Moon Distance - Lunar Retro-reflector
  • 8A20.65 - Earth/Moon/Sun Demo - Tellurium
  • 8A20.70 - Scale of the Earth/Sun/Moon System
  • 8A20.80 - Tides - Moon or Spacecraft
  • 8A20.90 - Tidal Heating

 

Views From Earth - 1

  • 8A30.10 - The Horizon - Estimating the Distance to the Horizon
  • 8A30.30 - Retrograde Motion of Inner Planets Demo
  • 8A30.32 - Retrograde Motion
  • 8A30.40 - Zodiacal Light
  • 8A30.45 - Distortion due to Refraction
  • 8A30.50 - Synodic Period
  • 8A30.70 - Parallax
  • 8A30.80 - Auto-resonance
  • 8A30.90 - Roche Limit

 

Views From Earth - 2

  • 8A35.10 - Celestial Sphere
  • 8A35.20 - Armillary Sphere
  • 8A35.30 - Satellite Orbits

 

Planetary Properties 1: Subheading - Globes, Hemispheres, & Maps

  • 8A40.05 - Maps
  • 8A40.10 - Globes, Planets, and Satellites

 

Planetary Properties 2: Subheading - The Planets

  • 8A50.10 - Mercury
  • 8A50.12 - Mercury's Orbit
  • 8A50.15 - Perihelion of Mercury
  • 8A50.20 - Venus
  • 8A50.30 - Earth
  • 8A50.34 - Geological Timeline and Fossils - Earth
  • 8A50.35 - The Moon
  • 8A50.36 - The Moon's Orbit
  • 8A50.37 - Lunar Missions
  • 8A50.38 - Moonquakes
  • 8A50.39 - The Moon's Offset Center-of-Mass
  • 8A50.40 - Mars
  • 8A50.41 - Mars Missions, Orbital Timing
  • 8A50.42 - Aerobraking at Mars
  • 8A50.45 - Mars' Moons
  • 8A50.50 - Jupiter
  • 8A50.55 - Jupiter's Moons/Galilean Satellites
  • 8A50.60 - Saturn
  • 8A50.65 - Saturn's Moons
  • 8A50.70 - Uranus
  • 8A50.75 - Uranus' Moons
  • 8A50.80 - Neptune
  • 8A50.85 - Neptune's Moons & Triton's Liq. N2 Geysers

 

Planetary Properties 3: Subheading - Planetoids, Minor Objects

  • 8A60.10 - Minor Planets and Pluto/Charon
  • 8A60.25 - Asteroids
  • 8A60.30 - Meteorites
  • 8A60.33 - Tektites
  • 8A60.35 - Meteors
  • 8A60.40 - Outer Solar System Objects
  • 8A60.50 - The Kuiper Belt
  • 8A60.60 - Extrasolar Planets
  • 8A60.65 - Habitable Zone
  • 8A60.70 - Matter from Outside Our Solar System

 

Planetary Properties 4: Subheading - Planetary Characteristics

  • 4B70.23 - Cloud Formation by Cooling
  • 4B70.25 - Cloud in a Bottle
  • 6A40.47 - Refraction - Twinkling Planets and Stars
  • 6F40.10 - Distortion due to Atmospheric Scattering - Reddening Due to Atmospheric Scattering or Interstellar Dust
  • 8A70.05 - Geological Samples
  • 8A70.06 - Refractory Minerals
  • 8A70.10 - Planetary Magnetism
  • 8A70.20 - Earth's Atmosphere
  • 8A70.22 - Sounding Balloon Experiment
  • 8A70.25 - Earth - Climate Change
  • 8A70.30 - Transient Luminous Emissions - Sprites, Jets, and Elves
  • 8A70.35 - Lightening Whistlers
  • 8A70.40 - The Greenhouse Effect
  • 8A70.45 - Cloud Formation - Smog
  • 8A70.52 - Planetary Atmosphere Models
  • 8A70.55 - Rotational Banding/Planetary Atmospheres
  • 8A70.60 - Precipitation in the Solar System
  • 8A70.65 - Aurora
  • 8A70.75 - Gaseous Planets - Atmospheres
  • 8A70.77 - Planetary Cores
  • 8A70.78 - Planetary Gravities
  • 8A70.80 - Red Hot Ball - Planetary Temperatures
  • 8A70.82 - Protoplanets and Planetshine
  • 8A70.85 - Earthquake Model
  • 8A70.87 - Tectonic Plates
  • 8A70.90 - Crater Formation

 

Planetary Properties 5: Subheading - Comets and the Search for Life

  • 8A80.10 - Make a Comet
  • 8A80.15 - Comets
  • 8A80.30 - Halley's Comet
  • 8A80.40 - Comet Hale-Bopp
  • 8A80.90 - The Creating of Life in the Classroom
  • 8A80.92 - Pond Scum
  • 8A80.95 - Life On Other Planets

Stellar Astronomy

 

The Sun

  • 8B10.10 - The Sun
  • 8B10.20 - Solar Constant
  • 8B10.22 - Solar Energy
  • 8B10.24 - Solar Luminosity
  • 8B10.30 - Sun - Surface Temperature
  • 8B10.35 - The Sun's Size
  • 8B10.40 - Convection Cells or Rayleigh-Benard Cell
  • 8B10.50 - Sunspots
  • 8B10.55 - Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections
  • 8B10.60 - Random Walk
  • 8B10.70 - Solar Oscillations
  • 8B10.80 - Stellar Fusion - Nuclear Fusion Model
  • 8B10.90 - The Poynting-Robertson Effect

 

Stellar Spectra

  • 8B20.10 - Stellar Spectra
  • 8B20.20 - Doppler Effect and Stellar Spectra
  • 8B20.40 - Gamma Rays

 

Stellar Evolution

  • 1Q40.22 - Conservation of Angular Momentum - Hoberman Sphere
  • 8B30.10 - Stellar Magnitude
  • 8B30.20 - HR Diagram
  • 8B30.30 - Stellar Lifecycle
  • 8B30.35 - Binary Star System - Eclipsing Binary or Trinary
  • 8B30.40 - Variable Stars - Cepheid Variable Stars
  • 8B30.45 - Supernova and Novae
  • 8B30.50 - Supernova Core Bounce
  • 8B30.60 - Neutron Stars
  • 8B30.65 - Pulsar Demo
  • 8B30.70 - Sounds of Pulsars
  • 8B30.72 - X-Ray Pulsars
  • 8B30.75 - White Dwarfs
  • 8B30.80 - Brown Dwarf
  • 8B30.85 - Red Giants
  • 8B30.90 - Nebula
  • 8B30.95 - Forward, Backward, and Side Scattering - Zodiacal Light

 

Black Holes

  • 8B40.10 - Black Holes
  • 8B40.11 - Black Hole "Earth"
  • 8B40.20 - Black Hole Surface - Fiberglass or Plastic
  • 8B40.30 - Membrane Table
  • 8B40.40 - Gravity Well - Black Hole
  • 8B40.50 - Magnetic Field Coupling

 

Stellar Miscellaneous

  • 8B50.10 - Local Star Map - Cosmic Neighborhood
  • 8B50.15 - Fast Moving Stars
  • 8B50.30 - Interferometry
  • 8B50.45 - Hydrostatic Equilibrium
  • 8B50.60 - Lookback Time
  • 8B50.70 - Olber's Paradox
  • 8B50.80 - Gamma Ray Bursts

Cosmology

 

Models of the Universe

  • 8C10.05 - Cosmological Models
  • 8C10.10 - The Big Bang
  • 8C10.20 - Cosmic Microwave Background
  • 8C10.25 - Steady State, Expanding, Contracting Universe
  • 8C10.30 - Expanding Universe
  • 8C10.39 - Expanding Universe
  • 8C10.50 - Galaxies - 1000 Megaparsecs
  • 8C10.52 - Milky Way Galaxy
  • 8C10.55 - View of the Galactic Center from a Spiral Arm
  • 8C10.60 - Galaxy Model/Spiral Galaxies
  • 8C10.70 - Radio Galaxies
  • 8C10.75 - AGN - Active Galactic Nuclei
  • 8C10.76 - Galaxy Halo
  • 8C10.80 - One Million Galaxies
  • 8C10.90 - Globular Clusters

 

Gravitational Effects

  • 8C20.10 - Klein Bottle
  • 8C20.20 - Moebius Strip
  • 8C20.25 - Lagrange Point - Lagrangian Location
  • 8C20.30 - Saddle Shape
  • 8C20.35 - Non-Euclidean Geometry
  • 8C20.40 - Gravitational Lens
  • 8C20.50 - Cosmic Web, Gravitational Waves - LIGO
  • 8C20.53 - Gravity Sandbox
  • 8C20.55 - Gravitational Waves - Spiraling Black Holes
  • 8C20.60 - Quasars
  • 8C20.70 - Cosmic Strings
  • 8C20.80 - Dark Matter
  • 8C20.90 - Dark Energy

Miscellaneous

 

Miscellaneous Astronomy

  • 8D10.10 - Astrophotography
  • 8D10.20 - Daytime Observations
  • 8D10.30 - Tossing on a Rotating Space Station - ISS Gravity
  • 8D10.50 - Astronaut Training
  • 8D10.80 - Space Debris

 

Telescopes

  • 8D20.10 - Radio Telescopes
  • 8D20.20 - Microwave Telescopes
  • 8D20.30 - Infrared Telescopes
  • 8D20.40 - Optical Telescopes
  • 8D20.45 - Solar Telescope
  • 8D20.47 - Hubble Space Telescope - HST, and James Webb Space Telescope
  • 8D20.50 - UV Telescopes
  • 8D20.60 - X-Ray Telescopes
  • 8D20.70 - Gamma Ray Telescopes

 

Astronomical Instruments

  • 8D30.10 - Satellite Models - Van Allen Satellite Model
  • 8D30.20 - Spacecraft Models
  • 8D30.50 - Satellites
  • 8D30.55 - Space Shuttle Tiles - Space Shuttle
  • 8D30.57 - Aerogel
  • 8D30.60 - Spacecraft
  • 8D30.70 - Slingshot Effect - Gravity Assist

Astronomy Teaching Techniques

Techniques and Projects

  • 8E30.05 - Two Films - Astronomy Knowledge
  • 8E30.10 - Teaching Astronomy With Games
  • 8E30.20 - Build an Observational Astronomy Program
  • 8E30.30 - Teaching with Astronomical Catalogues
  • 8E30.40 - Using Space to Teach Physics