Astronomy 4300- "Galactic Astronomy"

This is the home page for Astronomy 4300 taught in the Spring semester of 2008.

Professor Ata Sarajedini
Office: BRT 222
Phone:  392-2052 x238

If you want to email me, my address is ata@astro.ufl.edu.

Syllabus (PDF)

Hyades Cluster Lab (PDF), Hyades data and cluster files

Galactic Globular Cluster Extinction Data

Magellanic Stream Simulation Movie

Where are we (the earth) in the grand scheme of things (the Milky Way)?

 The Galactic center(?)

 Some components of the Milky Way.......

-- Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (see also the Magellanic Stream)

-- The Sagittarius dwarf galaxy

-- Globular Cluster (M15)

-- Open Cluster (M67)

-- Emission Nebula (M16 observed from the ground and with Hubble Space Telescope)

-- Reflection Nebula (Pleiades)

-- Dark Nebula (NGC 6520)

-- Planetary Nebula (Hourglass)

-- Globular cluster, emission nebula, and reflection nebula (Rho Ophiuchus)

All of the above courtesy of the APOD.

1. Binary Stars

2. HR Diagram

3. Stellar Structure

4. Stellar Evolution (Main Sequence)

5. Stellar Evolution (Red Giant Branch)

6. Star Formation (HST Images and Animation)

7. Movies of Supernova Explosion Simulations

JAVA Applets at the University of Oregon

JAVA Applets at Davidson (excellent blackbody curve)

JAVA Star Map

Chip Kobulnicky's JAVA Applet illustrating the 3-D distribution of Local Group galaxies

Space Telescope Science Institute home page

National Optical Astronomy Observatories home page

ADS Abstract Service

LANL/astro-ph Preprint Server

The Astronomical Journal

The Astrophysical Journal

SkyView Virtual Observatory

DIRBE/IRAS Dust Maps