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Lecture 1 : Introduction, measurements, units, scientific notation, scientific method. (PowerPoint file)

Lecture 2 : Light and its importance to knowing the composition, temperature, and motion of stars and other bodies. (PowerPoint file)

Lecture 3: Telescopes. (PowerPoint file)

Lecture 3.5: Identifying a few bright stars and constellations using Orion and the Big Dipper as guides. (PowerPoint file)

Lecture 4: The night sky, path of the Sun, phases of the Moon, the celestial sphere, seasons. (PowerPoint file)

Lecture 5: Modern history of astronomy, Kepler's three laws of planetary motion, Newton's three laws of motion, Newton's law of gravitation. (PowerPoint file)

Lecture 6: Terrestrial planets (Mercury, Earth, Venus, Mars) and the Moon. (PowerPoint file)

Lecture 7: Jovian planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune). (PowerPoint file)

Lecture 8: Pluto, comets, and asteroids. (PowerPoint file)

Lecture 9: The Sun and stars; apparent brightness, luminosity, H-R diagram. (PowerPoint file)

Lecture 10: Binary stars, clusters, and the information they give us. (PowerPoint file)

Lecture 11: Stellar evolution. (PowerPoint file)

Lecture 12: Black holes. (PowerPoint file)

Lecture 13: Galaxies. (PowerPoint File)

Lecture 14: Quasars. (PowerPoint File)