Astronomy 161 - Introduction to Solar System Astronomy

Welcome to Astronomy 161

Lecture 2: Astronomical Numbers

Lecture 3: The Starry Night

Lecture 4: Measuring the Earth

Lecture 5: Mapping Earth and Sky

Lecture 6: Daily and Annual Motions

Lecture 7: The Four Seasons

Lecture 8: Phases of the Moon

Lecture 9: Eclipses of the Sun and Moon

Lecture 10: Telling Time

Lecture 11: The Calendar

Lecture 12: The Wanderers - Planetary Motions

Lecture 13: Greek Astronomy

Lecture 14: The Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus

Lecture 15: The Watershed: Tycho and Kepler

Lecture 16: Galileo and the Telescope

Lecture 17: On the Shoulders of Giants: Isaac Newton and the Laws of Motion

Lecture 18: The Apple and the Moon - Newtonian Gravity

Lecture 19: Orbits

Lecture 20: Tides

Lecture 21: The Rotation and Revolution of the Earth

Lecture 22: Light the Messenger

Lecture 23: Worlds Within: Atoms

Lecture 24: Matter and Light

Lecture 25: Measuring Light - Spectroscopy

Lecture 26: Telescopes

Lecture 27: Deep Time - The Age of the Earth

Lecture 28: Inside the Earth

Lecture 29: The Earth's Atmosphere

Lecture 30: The Moon

Lecture 31: The Family of the Sun

Lecture 32: The Origin of the Solar System

Lecture 33: Battered Mercury

Lecture 34: Venus Unveiled

Lecture 35: The Deserts of Mars

Lecture 36: Worlds in Comparison - The Terrestrial Planets

Lecture 37: Jupiter and Saturn

Lecture 38: Uranus and Neptune

Lecture 39: The Moons of Jupiter

Lecture 40: The Saturn System

Lecture 41: Planetary Rings

Lecture 42: Asteroids and Meteoroids

Lecture 43: Icy Worlds of the Outer Solar System

Lecture 44: Comets

Lecture 45: Is Pluto a Planet?

Lecture 46: ExoPlanets - Planets around Other Stars

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