Astronomy Weekly Schedule

4) Note that the cd in your text has hints to help answer the review questions at the end of each chapter. Also, there are answers for some questions in the back of the text. On the companion website, http://cw.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/chaissonat4/ you can find sample test questions.

1) Review of image web sites. Due Monday Sept. 16. In this assignment you will explore and write a review of some of the web sites holding information about astronomical images. Go to three of the first five image web sites listed on the class links page (skip the "Photo Catalog of Messier Objects"). After you have looked at the three web sites and explored the information presented on each, make a list ranking the sites in order of overall usefulness. By overall usefulness you should consider: 1) quality of information, 2) quantity of information, and 3) ease of use. For each site give a brief description of the types of information available, its level of detail, how it was organized, whether it had links to other sources, etc. and discuss why you placed it where you did in your ranking. Lets use a five point (or five star!) rating scale, with 5 being the highest. You will make use of these image sites in later assignments, so you can save yourself some time later by learning about what each one has to offer now.