A wiki for the undergraduate astronomy labs which aims to organize all the information about labs!

This wiki is intended for use by TAs, Staff, and Professors only! This wiki is not intended to be distributed to students. While currently the site is publicly accessible, I ask that this wiki not be freely shared with students.

Spring 2025 Lab Schedule

Pool of Available In-person Labs

Lab Repo of Online Labs

1. There will be weekly TA meetings on Friday at 1:05pm.
2. Nancy's Slides (uploaded soon!)
3. Demo PowerPoints for some Lab Lectures - it is the TA's responsibility to create lecture slides tailored to your teaching style - these are provide to get you started!
4. Resources from NMSU Teaching Center
5. Dept of Astronomy 2020-2021 Department Handbook
6. Campus Observatory Sheet for observatory nights
7. Inclusive Astronomy Story Packages Which Can Be used in Intro Slides

NOTE - For the demo / example slides, these are to be used as guidelines and are suggestions with how you should make your lab power-point / presentation.

Spring 2023 Labs

List of equipment for individual labs can be found here. Everything is stored in BX 102's closet.

1. Current Course Lab Manuals
2. Kepler's Law Planetary Orbit Simulator
3. Parallax Ruler PDF
4. HR Lab V PS File
5. HR Lab B PS File
6. Semi-major axis calculator for Exoplanet Lab

Old Archived Notes

Tombaugh Fall 2025 Campus Obs Dates

TA and Graduate Student volunteer sign-up sheet for Campus Observatory Night

Tombaugh Operation Notes

List of changes Zach needs to implement for the lab manual