Module 2 Lecture Videos

Videos

Here are the lecture videos for Module 2:

Types of Apparent Motions in the Sky (7 min)

Diurnal Apparent Motion in the Sky (9 min)

Apparent Sky Motions: Implications (5 min)

Latitude Effect (13 min)

Apparent Annual Motion in the Sky (10 min)

Apparent Annual Motion: The Reality (4 min)

The Spherical Earth (11 min)

Planetary Apparent Motion (7 min)

The Geocentric Model (8 min)

Heliocentrism and Parallax (10 min)

Galileo's Discoveries (10 min)

Constellations and Magnitudes (9 min)

Slides

Here are the PowerPoint slides that I used when I was making the videos. They are in PDF format.

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Links You Might Find Interesting

In many of these videos, you'll see me demonstrating what the sky looks like, using a "planetarium program" called Stellarium Links to an external site.. You DON'T need to download it or use it in this class, but IF you want to play around with it on your own, it's a great piece of software. It runs on both PCs and Macs (and even on Linux, too!)