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• Resources & Terminology Handout
• Lectures
  • Moon 101
  • Moon 101 Lecture
    ~5Mb PDF
    ~11Mb Powerpoint Slideshow
    
    
  • Moon 101 handouts
    PDF - grayscale
    PDF - color
    
    
  • Astronomy 101 (by Zodiac)
    • Astronomy 101 Lecture:
      ~17Mb PDF file
      ~48Mb PDF file (with notes)
      ~ 40Mb Powerpoint Slideshow
      
      
    • Astronomy 101 handouts:
      ~14Mb PDF file
      
      
  • Astronomy 101 (by Season)
    • Powerpoint file
  • Infant Lecture (12-18 Month Olds):
    WMV file
    Note: About 20 seconds of silence with picture of Sun, then three repeats of the animated song for 1-year-olds.
    CAUTION: Only listen to it once as it will get into your brain like a leech and suck all the intelligence out.
    
    
• Youtube Videos
  As with all Youtube videos, some are good, some are somewhat inaccurate and some are total rubbish. The ones on this list are reasonably scientifically reliable if you ignore the idiots posting comments.
  • Life Cycle of a Star
    
    
  • Pillars of Creation
    
    
  • Size of Universe
    
    
  • Comparative Star Sizes and Another
    There are many more and not all agree as to the relative sizes of the larger stars - Antares and Betelgeus are often swapped
    
    
  • Powers of Ten
    Again, there are many more and not all are accurate
    
    
• Resources
  • Stellarium Planetarium program for PC

  • Astronomy Software Programs for Mac, Unix and PC

  • Moon Phase

  • Local Sidereal Time

  • USNO Astronomical Applications

  • Constellation Photographs w/ line drawings and deep sky objects

  • Hubble Photographs

  • Messier Catalog and Wikipedia Messier Catalog

  • Star types