Student Learning Outcomes

• Students will be able to apply three coordinate systems (terrestrial, equatorial, and alt-azimuth) to globes, maps, atlases and the planetarium.
• Students will be able to interpret star atlases, maps, catalogs and planispheres.
• Students will be able to identify parts of equatorial-mount refracting and reflecting telescopes.
• Students will be able to classify spectra of main-sequence stars from an objective prism spectrogram, using key reference spectra.
• Students will be able to identify winter and summer constellations and the brightest stars in each by name.
• Students will be able to plot planetary, lunar and/or solar motions on a graph, utilizing appropriate tables of positions, and interpreting the objects' apparent motions on the celestial sphere
• Students will be able to compare telescopes to determine which would be the best instrument for a given observation.