Astronomy 161 - Introduction to Solar System Astronomy - Aut...

Welcome to Astronomy 161 for Autumn Quarter 2007

Lecture 01: Introduction to Astronomy 161

Lecture 02: Astronomical Numbers

Lecture 03: The Starry Night

Lecture 04: Measuring the Earth

Lecture 05: Mapping Earth & Sky

Lecture 06: Daily and Annual Motions

Lecture 07: The Four Seasons

Lecture 08: The Phases of the Moon

Lecture 09: Eclipses of the Sun and Moon

Lecture 10: Telling Time

Lecture 11: The Calendar

Lecture 12: The Wanderers

Lecture 13: The Harmony of the Spheres - Greek Astronomy

Lecture 14: The Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus

Lecture 14b: Copernicus from Au2006

Lecture 15: The Watershed - Tycho and Kepler

Lecture 16: The Starry Messenger - 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 Gravitation

Lecture 19: Orbits

Lecture 20: Tides

Lecture 21: Dance of the Planets

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: The Gas Giants - Jupiter and Saturn

Lecture 38: The Ice Giants - Uranus and Neptune

Lecture 39: The Moons of Jupiter

Lecture 40: The Saturn System

Lecture 41: Planetary Rings

Lecture 42: Asteroids

Lecture 43: Icy Worlds of the Outer Solar System

Lecture 44: Comets

Lecture 45: Exoplanets - Planets Around Other Stars

Lecture 46: Are We Alone? Life in the Universe

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