James Stockton's ASTR 110 Lab Page

Below is a listing of the labs used in ASTR 110 with links to their online versions

There are also links to general astronomy information as well as information specific to each lab



These Are Links to Interesting and Helpful General Information

  • Space Today Online (great resource with tons of info)
  • The Solar System (lots of info)
  • Lunar and PLanetary Institute
  • Radioactive Dating
  • Life on other Planets
  • An Overview of the Nine Planets
  • Planetary Photojournal
  • Doppler Shift
  • The Hipparcos Satellite
  • Black holes
  • Gravitational lensing, as predicted by Einstein
  • White dwarf Sirius B, and the extraterrestrials
  • Eta Carinae, a highly unstable, extremely massive star
  • Galaxies
  • Hubble's Galaxy Classification System
  • Cosmology Tutorial
  • Zsolt Frei's Catalog of Nearby Galaxies

    Lab 1 - Intro Lab (Math Review)

  • Online version of the Lab
  • Math Review website
  • How to Simplify a Number
  • Scientific Notation
  • Powers of 10
  • Logarithm Usage

    Lab 2 - The Surface of the Moon

  • Online version of the Lab
  • The Moon
  • The Phases of the Moon
  • Discovery of the Galilean Satellites

    Lab 3 - Shaping Surfaces in the Solar System: The Impacts of Comets and Asteroids

  • Online version of the Lab
  • General Info on Comets

    Lab 4 - Introduction to the Geology of the Terrestrial Planets

  • Online version of the Lab
  • Processes that shape Terrestrial planets

    Lab 5 - Kepler's Laws and Gravitation I and II

  • Online version of the Lab (I)
  • Online version of the Lab (II)
  • Kepler's Laws
  • Solar System Simulator
  • Jovian Moon Orbits
  • Binary Star Orbits

    Lab 6 - The Orbit of Mercury

  • Online version of the Lab
  • The Heliocentric and Geocentric Models
  • The Phases of the Inner and Outer Planets

    Lab 7 - Measuring Distances Using Parallax

  • Online version of the Lab
  • Parallax

    Lab 8 - Optics

  • Online version of the Lab
  • Reflection, Refraction, and Optics in general

    Lab 9 - Telescopes and Detectors

  • Online version of the Lab
  • Telescope Basics: Vocabulary
  • How does it work ?

    Lab 10 - The Power of Light: Understanding Spectroscopy

  • Online version of the Lab
  • The Electromagnetic Spectrum
  • The Periodic Table
  • Atomic Structure
  • Spectral Lines
  • Energy Levels
  • Electric Force between Atomic Nuclei and Electrons
  • Energy Levels in the Bohr Atom
  • Emission and Absorption Spectra for each Element
  • Blackbody Radiation (an interactive demo)

    Lab 11 - Our Sun

  • Online version of the Lab
  • The Sun

    Lab 12 - The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram

  • Online version of the Lab
  • The Hertzsprung-Russel Diagram

    Lab 13 - Mapping the Galaxy

  • Online version of the Lab

    Lab 14 - Galaxy Morphology

  • Online version of the Lab
  • Learn to distinguish different types of galaxies

    Lab 15 - How Many Galaxies Are There in the Universe?

  • Online version of the Lab
  • What is measurement error ?
  • Using 'rough' estimates to answer questions

    Lab 16 - Mapping the Local Universe

  • Online version of the Lab

    Lab 17 - Hubble's Law: Finding the Age of the Universe

  • Online version of the Lab
  • Hubble's Law
  • More Hubble's Law
  • Cosmology Overview