Date	Topic
Thu. 9/10	Introduction
Mon. 9/14	Introduction to Mac OSX and UNIX; Astronomical Resources (OA 3; OU Intro, 11-12)
Mon. evening 9/14	Computer work; telescope training
Thu. 9/17	Light (OA 5)
Mon. 9/21	Time, the Calendar, Coordinates; Spherical Trig. (OA 1,2,4; OU 1)
Mon. evening. 9/21	Intro to IRAF
Thu. 9/24	Planetarium Day
Mon. 9/28	NO CLASS OR EVENING LAB - Yom Kippur
Thu. 10/1	Stellar Evolution Review (review textbook)
Mon. 10/5	CCDs and Other Detectors (OA 8; OU 4; CCD 1,3)
Mon. evening 10/5	CCD Exercises; learning MaxIm and ImageJ
Thu. 10/8	Reducing CCD Data (OA 9; OU 5; CCD 4, browse 2))
Mon. 10/12	NO CLASS OR EVENING LAB - Fall Reading Period
Thu. 10/15	CCD Data Reduction discusson of final observing projects
Mon. 10/19	Magnitude Systems and Extinction (OA 7)
Mon. evening 10/19	From now on, all Monday night lab periods are for your independent work; Prof. K. and Dr. S. will be "on-call" during those hours.
Thu. 10/22	MIDTERM EXAM
Mon. 10/26	Signals and Statistics (OA Appendix 1; OU 13; handout)
Thu. 10/29	"Journey to Palomar"
Mon. 11/2	Brief (5-7 minutes) presentations of imaging projects Spectrographs (OA 12; OU 3; browse CCD 6)
Thu. 11/5	Astronomical Spectroscopy (OA 13; OU 7; CCD 6)
Mon. 11/9	Photometry and Photometric Reductions (OA 12; OU 6; CCD 5)
Thu. 11/12	In-class Lab: HR Diagrams of Clusters (online resources)
Mon. 11/16	Finish HR Diagrams (online resources)
Thu. 11/19	Data Mining (online resources)
Mon. 11/23	Finish Data Mining (online resources)
Thu. 11/26	NO CLASS - THANKSGIVING BREAK
Mon. 11/30	Telescopes and Optics (OA 6; OU 2)
Thu. 12/3	Radio Astronomy (see http://www.haystack.mit.edu/edu/undergrad/materials/RA_tutorial.html)
Mon. 12/7	Spacecraft Astronomy and Data (see: http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/xray_introduction/ , http://www.astro.virginia.edu/class/oconnell/astr511/UV-astron-f03.html , http://www.sofia.usra.edu/Sofia/telescope/sofia_tele.html)
Thu. 12/10	Final Project Presentations