Professor Min S. Yun

Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:30-3:30pm (or phone me for an appointment)
Office: B522 Graduate Research Tower (LGRT)
Phone : 545-2215
Email : myun(at)astro.umass.edu
TA : Neil Patel (LGRT 619O) and Yiming Li (LGRT 619B)

Textbook: Pathway to Astronomy, Stars and Galaxies (Volume 2) by Schneider and Arny

• available at the Textbook Annex and Jeffery Amherst College Bookstore.
• Electronic textbook is also available at http://textbooks.zinio.com/. Type "schneider" in the search box, and the book should come up.

Textbook Website: for animations, interactives, and self-study quizes (click on "Resources" near the top of the page)

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COURSE INFORMATION

• Final Course Grades
• Course Overview
• Requirements
• Student Contract
• List of Lectures and Assignments (frequently updated!)
• OWL (for quizes and assignments; here is a direction on how to use OWL).
• PRS transmitter
• Extra-Credit Papers
• Course Grade Calculator
• Where to go for Help!

STUDY HELP

• Take a quiz
• Get Help with Problem Techniques or Ideas from a Short Tutorial
• Constellation Quizes
• Mini-Lessons and Animations

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Astronomy News

• Astronomy News from Sky and Telescope magazine
• Night Sky Info from Sky and Telescope magazine

Astronomy Picture Gallery

• Astro Picture of the Day
• Hubble Space Telescope Pictures
• Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) images
• National Radio Astronomy Observatory (Radio Astronomy Images)
• Jet Propulsion Lab/NASA
• The Solar System

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Observing Opportunities:
Thursday evenings (7:30-9:30) at the Orchard Hill Observatory. Call 7-4166 after 7pm to check on the observing status. Here is the Observatory information and the directions.

The Amherst Area Amateur Astronomy Association runs observatory and planetarium sessions on a regular schedule. Check the AAAAA website for more details.

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All course materials on this page and its UMASS links are copyrighted.