PH 325 - Experimental Astrophysics
Fall Term of 1999

• Course syllabus (Word document)

• More CCD pictures - taken in the Augustana Observatory on Oct. 27, 1999

The pictures shown below were taken by students taking this course.  Starting at about 9:00 pm, all seven members of the class used 35 mm cameras, Tri-X film, tripods, and stopwatches to obtain pictures of long star trails and to take pictures of several constellations.  They develop their own film and make prints using the department's darkroom.

These photos were taken with an ST-6 CCD camera and an 8" telescope  in rural Milan on September 29, 1999.
	M31 - Andromeda Galaxy Wesley Calvert, Andrew Roinestad 10:19 pm  CDT Exposure time:  3 seconds Angular size: 18 x 28 arcminutes Andromeda is in the constellation Pegasus and can be viewed with binoculars.  It is 2 million light-years from Earth.
	M57 - Ring Nebula Wesley Calvert, Andrew Roinestad,  Christopher Gallick 10:42 pm  CDT Exposure time:  5 seconds Angular size: 18 x 28 arcminutes The Ring nebula is about a light-year in diameter and is located some 2,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Lyra.   Here is a recent Hubble picture.