Exercises in Astronomy

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• The Planetary System.
• The Stars Around the North Pole.
• Spherical Triangles.
• Sun-Dials.
• The Daily Rotation of the Earth.
• Conversion of Time.
• Simple Measurements with an Altimeter.
• The Adjustment of a Telescope.
• To Point the Telescope to a Star.
• The Sextant.
• Finding Your Position at Sea.
• Precession, Aberration, Nutation.
• Lunar Eclipses.
• The Position of the Planets in their Orbits.
• The Orbit of Mars, as Determined by Kepler.
• The Three-Body Problem.
• Atmospheric Trajectory of a Meteoroid.
• Passage of an Artificial Satellite.
• Position of a Geostationary Satellite.
• Topography of the Moon.
• The Shape of Lunar Craters.
• Observation of Planets Through a Telescope.
• The Rotation of Saturn.
• The Stars.
• Solar Quantities.
• The Size of the Sun (S).
• The Solar Constant (S).
• The Brightness Distribution over the Sun’s Disc (L).
• Profiles of Fraunhofer Lines (L).
• Equivalent Width of Fraunhofer Lines (L).
• The Curve of Growth (L).
• Practice with MHD.
• Sunspots(S).
• The Rotation of the Sun(L).
• The Solar Cycle (L).
• The Convection Cells of Bénard (L).
• Radio Bursts after a Solar Flare (L).
• To Draw a Constellation (S).
• The Apparent Magnitudes of the Stars (S).
• Photoelectric Photometry of Stellar Images (L).
• The Atmospheric Extinction (S).
• Stellar Spectra (L).
• Data Retrieval in Spectroscopy.
• The Colours of the Stars (L).
• The UBV Photometric System (L).
• Black Body Radiation.
• Combinations of Black Bodies.
• Spectrophotometry of Stars in the Near Infrared.
• Derivation of Illuminations from Stellar Colors.
• Interstellar Extinction (L).
• Interstellar Extinction II.
• Temperatures of Stars: Wavelength Dependent Interstellar Extinction.
• The Nearest Stars (L).
• Stars at the Galactic Centre.
• The Motion of the Hyades (L).
• The Mean Light Curve of a Cepheid (L).
• Searchand Determination of Periodicity.
• Properties of Pulsars and the Interstellar Medium.
• Mirages Caused by a Gravitational Lens.
• Forbidden Emission Lines — I.
• Forbidden Emission Lines — II.
• Abundance of Elements.
• The Observation of Double Stars (S).
• The Orbit of a Visual Binary (L).
• The Dynamical Parallax of Binaries (L).
• The Orbit of a Spectroscopic Binary (L).
• The Orbit of an Eclipsing Variable (L).
• Light Changes of Eclipsing Variables and what we can Learn from them.
• The Observation of Star Clusters and Nebulae (S).
• Open Clusters (L).
• The Distribution of the Stars in a Globular Cluster (L).
• Cluster Variables in a Globular Cluster (L).
• The Milky Way (S).
• The Spiral Structure of the Galactic Clouds, Derived from 21 cm Measurements (L).
• Stability of Molecular Clouds.
• The High Redshift of Quasars.