CURRENT YEAR




CLASS lectures and LAB MANUALS SPECIAL lectures:
    Dr. Norm Jarosik
    • "WMAP Project" - August 10:
FITZRANDOLPH OBSERVATORY:
    Drs. Ed Groth and Norm Jarosik
    • Observatory visit, August 7 and 8, 2006
      (Rain date Aug 10 & 11)

        The objects we looked at were:
      • Jupiter with all four Galilean moons visible.
      • M57, the Ring Nebula, A shell of gas blown out by a dying star.
      • Beta Cygnus, Alberio, A blue and red double star.
      • M13, The Hercules Globular Cluster, a ball of perhaps a million stars held together by their mutual gravity, the whole cluster in orbit about our Milky Way Galaxy.
      • The Moon.
HANDOUTS: