Cosmic Connections: An Introduction to Astronomy and Maine’s Magnificent Night Skies – Course Website
Instructor
Russ Pinizzotto
Email: ZZotto@icloud.com
Cohost
Harry Hopcroft
Email: harry.techmanage@gmail.com
Course Syllabus and Intro Letter
RFP’S CLASS NOTES
- UNIT 1: Welcome and Orientation to Maine’s Magnificent Night Skies
- UNIT 2: Understanding Motion and the Celestial Sphere
- UNIT 3: Seasons and the Tilted Earth
- UNIT 4: The Moon – Phases and Patterns
- UNIT 5: Tides and Eclipses
- UNIT 6: The Inner Circle
- UNIT 7: The Gas and Ice Giants
- UNIT 8: Dwarf Planets, Asteroids, and Comets
- UNIT 9: Our Sun, The Living Star
- UNIT 10: The Life and Death of Stars
- UNIT 11: Exoplanets
- UNIT 12: The Milky Way
- UNIT 13: Galaxies
- UNIT 14: Cosmology
- UNIT 15: Practical Stargazing and Wrap-up