Astronomy

Tools for Astronomy Students
Astronomy Syllabus / Disclosure
Online PDF Textbook
Planetarium / Virtual Telescope Software: Stellarium (Free)
Milky Way 3D Local Star Cluster Map
Planisphere -Star Wheel | PDF | Video |
Alison Free Astronomy Course
Crash Course Astronomy
iLecture Online Astronomy 101

Multimedia Resources

Video: Uluru Experience - Wonder at the Night Sky

Video: Solar Analemma

Video: Solar Shadow Time Lapse

Video: Phases of the Moon

Video: Moon Phases and Eclipses

Video: Planets as Wandering Stars

Video: Positions on the Celestial Sphere

Interactive: Rotating Sky Explorer, Celestial Horizon Simulator

Video: Angle of Declination

Video: Right Ascention

Video: Altitude and Azimuth

Video: Using the Star Wheel

Video: Astrolabe

Video: History of the Telescope

Video: The Universe - Beyond the Big Bang (alternate site) [1 hr 25 min, broken into segments below]

Early Man's View
Aristotle and Ptolemy - Geocentrism
Video: Armilary Sphere | Animate It - Armillary Sphere
Nicolaus Copernicus - Heliocentrism
Johannes Kepler - Eliptical Motions - Laws of Planetary Motion
Galileo Galilei - Refraction Telecope and Evidence for Heliocentrism
Isaac Newton - Reflection Telescope and Newtonian Mechanics + Gravity
Einstein and Beyond (start at 00:32:53)

Video: Solar System Body Scale

Video: Scale Solar System in Nevada Desert

Video: Powers of Ten

Video: Helical Model of Solar System

Video: How Earth Moves and Time (alternate site)

Video: Edges of the Solar System

Video: Star Size Comparison

Video: Hubble - Stellar Nursury

Pic: Where in the Milky Way Galaxy is our Sun?

Video: Hubble - Nebulas, Galaxies, Clusters

Pic: Where in the Universe is the Milky Way?

Video: Laniakea - Our Home Supercluster

Pic: Where in the known Universe is Laniakea?

Video: The Universe - Secrets of the Sun - S01E01

Video: The Universe - Life and Death of a Star - S01E10

Lesson: History of the Big Bang Theory

Calendar

Navigating the Night Sky

Ancient Astronomy

Ch 1: Here and Now

Ch 2: User's Guide to the Sky

Ch 3: Moon Phases and Eclipses

Ch 4: Origins of Modern Astronomy

Ch 5: Gravity

Ch 6: Light and Telescopes

Ch 7: Atoms and Spectra

Ch 8: The Sun

Ch 9: The Family of Stars

Ch 10: Interstellar Medium

Ch 11: Formation and Structure of Stars

Ch 12: Stellar Evolution

Ch 13: The Deaths of Stars

Ch 14: Neutron Stars and Black Holes

Ch 15: Milky Way Galaxy

Ch 16: Galaxies

Ch 17: Active Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes

Ch 18: Modern Cosmology

Ch 19: Origin of the Solar System and Extrasolar Planets