Lab courses in astronomy for nonscience majors. Topics include astronomical instruments, coordinates and time, celestial mechanics, astrophotography, planets, satellites, comets and meteorites, the sun, magnitudes and the distances of the stars, and others. Can be used to fulfill the 8-hour lab science requirement; not for physics majors.
In Astro 105, the topics include the ancient astronomy, motions of the sky, the Copernican Revolution, electromagnetic theory, telescopes, and the Solar System.
Astronomy 106 is the second semester of a two semester course in Astronomy. Topics include the Sun, stellar formation and evolution, clusters of stars, the interstellar medium, the Galaxy, external galaxies, and Cosmology.