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
• 8A30.95 - Lagrange Point - Lagrangian Location

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

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