Class #1 (August 23): Introduction. (Read Chapter 1)

Class #2 (August 28): The Dawn of Astronomy (Read Chapter 3)

Class #3 (August 30): Celestial Cycles and Patterns (Read Chapter 2)

Class #4 (September 4): Motions of the Planets--the Geocentric Model (Chap. 2 cont.)

Class #5 (September 6): The Origin of the Seasons and Why the Sun and Moon Behave the Way They Do (Chap. 2 cont.)

Class #6 (September 11): The Origin of Eclipses, and the Rise of the Heliocentric Theory (Chap. 5)

Class #7 (September 13): The Earth and the Moon

Class #8 (September 18): Mercury, Venus, and Mars (Chap. 10)

Class #9 (September 20): The "Jovian" Planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune (Chap. 11)

Class #10 (September 25): Remnants of Rock and Ice: Pluto, Asteroids, and Comets (Chap. 12)

Class #11 (September 27): The Formation of the Solar System (Chap. 8)

Class #12 (October 2): Atomic Structure, Processes, and the Nature of Light (Chap. 6)

Class #13 (October 4): Our Sun-the Nearest Star (Chap. 14)

Class #14 (October 9): Atomic Structure, Nuclear Fusion, and Parallax (Chap. 14, and some of 15), Mid-term review.

Class #15 (October 11): Mid-term Exam

Class #16 (October 16): The Properties of Stars (Chap. 15)

Class #17 (October 18): The Lives of Stars (Chap. 16)

Class #18 (October 23): The Lives of High Mass Stars-The Formation of Neutron stars and Black Holes (Chap. 16 & 17)

Class #19 (October 25): Stellar Endproducts, Star Clusters and Star Formation Regions (Chapters 17 and 18)

Class #20 (October 30): The Milky Way (Chap. 18)

Class #21 (November 1): The Cosmic Distance Scale Ladder, and the Understanding of the "Spiral Nebulae" (Chap. 19)

Class #22 (November 6): Types of Galaxies (Chap. 19)

Class #23 (November 8): The Formation and History of Galaxies (Chap. 20)

Class #24 (November 13): Large Scale Structure, and the Paradoxes of Olbers and Newton (Chap. 21)

Class #25 (November 15): The Expanding Universe (Chap. 22)

Class #26 (November 27): The Big Bang Model for the Origin of the Universe (Chap. 22)

Class #27 (November 29):Is There Life Out There? A Short History (Chap. 13) and Life in our Solar System? [Note: Final observing materials due in in next week's lab!]

Class #28 (December 4): The Potential for Life In and Beyond the Solar System (Chap. 24) and Interstellar Space Travel

Class #29 (December 6): Course Review

Homework #1 (Due September 11)

Homework #2 (Due September 18)

Homework #3 (Due September 25)

Homework #4 (Due October 2)

Homework #5 (Due October 9)

Homework #6 (Due October 30)

Homework #7 (Due November 6)

Research Term Paper--"Homeworks 8 & 9" (Due November 27, or anytime before that.)

Homework #10 (Due December 4)

Make-up Assignment for those with EXCUSED absences that missed a Quiz (Due December 13th).

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