Nova the elegant universe video questions answers

Astronomy Observation Log

this assignment is an astronomy observation log. just add weeks oct 21- dec 2 one log per week except oct 29,30

pretty easy. just find date and research what wouldve been seen in the sy that night and make up an object used/ no more iphone! ( binoculars of an affordable brand can be listed/ and telescope of affordable brand) once you see attachment there its pretty self explanatory. ill give websites to help. look for nyc area

can use any nyc address on the log already . log up to the following week til now. pls remember there was a hurricane here! so pls dont log the day before, of and after hurricane. ill give you some websites to use so just plug it into log and make it snazzy ! would help if you're good at astronomy. ALSO feel free to use your own websites to help with the log. as long as the log makes sense.

Web Address Description / Title

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Home.aspx virtual telescope

http://www.nasa.gov/ multimedia information about space exploration

http://cas.sdss.org/dr7/en/ project to map the universe

http://astrosociety.org/education/resources/educsites.html website listing for astronomy instructors

http://www.mpe.mpg.de/ir/GC/index.php black holes

http://www.astrosociety.org/ Astronomical Society of the Pacific

http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/ask_astronomer/video/ video explanations of common astronomy questions

http://science.nasa.gov/ multimedia science news

http://161.58.115.79/education/podcast/ Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture podcasts

http://www.astronomycenter.org/index.cfm? teaching and learning resources for undergraduate Introductory

Astronomy courses

http://phet.colorado.edu/sims/my-solar-system/my-solar-system.swf simulation of solar system

http://www.michielb.nl/maya/astro.html Mayan astronomy

http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/ Mars exploration program

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/ exploration and development in space

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/ multimedia astronomy resources

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/ Space Science and Engineering Center, media

http://hubblesite.org/ universe through eye of Hubble telescope, multimedia

http://www.astronomy2009.org/ International Year of Astronomy 2009

http://nasaimages.org/ collection of images from NASA

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/ NASA mulitmedia plus live video and audio

http://stellarium.org/ free, open-source planetarium for computers

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ astronomy picture of the day from NASA

http://www.tinyurl.com/galileo-pisa Galileo's "falling bodies" experiment re-created at Pisa

http://stellarium.org/ computer-based planetarium in 3D

http://www.physics.purdue.edu/class/applets/NewtonsCannon/newtmtn.html orbital motion simulation

http://www.compadre.org/portal/index.cfm? digital resources for physics and astronomy

http://physicsworld.com/cws/home physics, astronomy news

http://www.the-nucleus.org/index.cfm? learning, research resources for physics and astronomy

undergrads

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program_d.html PBS Nova videos of The Elegant Universe

http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/Perimeter_Explorations/General/Perimeter_Explorations/ dark matter

http://www.sixtysymbols.com/ videos about the symobls of physics and astronomy

http://www.einstein-online.info/en/

web portal with information about Albert Einstein's theories of

relativity and applications, from the smallest particles to black

holes and cosmology

http://www.pbs.org/seeinginthedark/ PBS site on astronomy information

http://www.sciencenews.org/ news of science and the public

http://discovermagazine.com/ science, technology and the future

http://www.space.com/ space news

Astronomy Information Websites

http://www.astronomy.com/ astronomy news