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

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

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
• 8C20.30 - 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 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
• 8D30.57 - Aerogel
• 8D30.60 - Spacecraft
• 8D30.70 - Slingshot Effect - Gravity Assist

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