Astro 1050 Aug. 31, 2005
•Extra Credit Astronomy Articles on Friday
•Questionnaire results – pretty normal this semester
•Finish Ch. 1:  More about Scientific Notation, Units, and the Scale of the Universe, Powers of ten on the web: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html
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•Start Chapter 2 on the Sky
–How we name and start to describe stars
–Constellations, Magnitudes
–How the stars move across the sky
–The celestial sphere
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Reading:
For Today:  Ch. 1, Ch. 2, Appendix A
For Wed. : Ch. 3
Homework on WebCT (Due next Wed.)