Instructor: James Lowenthal
Office: McConnell Hall, Room 412
Phone: 585-6995
Email: jlowenth@smith.edu
Office Hours: Mon 2:30-3:30, Wed 2:00-3:00, or by appointment
Textbooks (available in the Grecourt Bookshop, Campus Center):
The Cosmic Perspective, 5th Edition, by Bennett,
Donahue, Schneider, and Voit
Lecture-Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy, 2nd Edition, by Prather et al.
Course Information:
Mastering
Astronomy website
This week's sky events from Sky and Telescope
Seasonal images of Earth
Galaxy
crash movie Summers, Mihos, and Hernquist
Large
scale structure formation movies Ben Moore, Univ. Durham (UK)
Chris Mihos' Galaxy Crash applet.
Interesting Astronomical Sites:
Weather:
Local Astronomy Research
Astronomy 111