EXTRA INFORMATION FOR ASTRONOMY 1010 Fall 2001

  • Directions and Map to ETSU Observatory
  • Map showing the ETSU planetarium (top floor of Hutcheson Hall, in room 207).
  • Lab schedule
  • Directions for using the CAPA homework software.
  • Clues to finding the constellations
  • Chris Dolan's interactive Java Applet about the phases of the moon
  • Web page describing Celestial Coordinates
  • Dates of upcoming solar and lunar eclipses
  • Planet Finder web page: shows the locations of the planets on the sky
  • Current positions of the planets in the solar system
  • Pictures of telescopes shown in class on Tuesday October 23 plus a few more
  • The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's list of the moons in the solar system.
  • The Jet Propulation Laboratory's solar system web page
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day
  • Interactive map of the Moon
  • Earth and Moon Viewer
  • The Kennedy Space Flight Center web page for the Apollo Missions
  • The Messenger spacecraft to Mercury
  • The Magellan Mission to Venus web page
  • The Mars Global Surveyor web page
  • The Mars Pathfinder web page
  • The 2001 Mars Odyssey
  • The Voyager web page
  • The Galileo web page
  • Description of the Europa Orbiter mission
  • Another web page about the Europa Orbiter
  • The Cassini Spacecraft
  • Movie of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter, from the Cassini spacecraft
  • The Nine Planets: images of the planets and moons of our solar system