Astronomy II 1100-1A23

Program:
1. Astronomical co-ordinate systems on the celestial sphere
- horizontal, equatorial I, equatorial II, ecliptic, galactic, other.
2. diurnal motion of the celestial sphere;
- description using different co-ordinate systems.
3. Spherical trigonometry
- equations; parallactic triangle, co-ordinate conversions, other examples;
4. Time and calendar
- sidereal time, diurnal and annual sun's path; solar time - apparent, mean, zone.
- year: tropical, sidereal; moon motion; month: sidereal, synodic, other.
5. Solar eclipse; lunar eclipse
- conditions of occurrence.
6. Stellar radiation
magnitudes; EM radiation: intensity, energy flux, luminosity; black body
7. Celestial mechanics; Two body problem
- dynamic laws and two body problem; center-of-mass motion approach;
- Kepler laws; orbits: elliptic, parabolic, hyperbolic
8. Methods of discovering planets in remote stellar systems;

Description by Grzegorz Pojmański, Feb 2008