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Course Descriptions Astronomy [ See department or program requirements ] Two-letter course code: AS COURSE OFFERINGS 151f Stars and Stellar Systems An introductory survey of modern solar, stellar, galactic, and extragalactic astronomy for students of both science and nonscience backgrounds. Basic astronomical concepts and recent discoveries will be treated from an astrophysical point of view. Lecture; laboratory for fourth credit. Three or four credit hours. N. CAMPBELL 231s Introduction to Astrophysics Theoretical topics include celestial mechanics, continuous and line spectra, stellar structure and nucleosynthesis, and stellar evolution. Observational topics include planning observations, acquisition of images with a CCD electronic camera at the Collins Observatory, and fundamentals of astronomical image processing, photometry, and stellar spectroscopy using IPLab in the Mac environment and IRAF in the UNIX environment. Open to all students interested in science who have a working knowledge of calculus. Students must be available Monday through Thursday evenings for telescope observing as weather permits. Lecture and laboratory. Four credit hours. N. CAMPBELL |
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