Lectures in this course will be topic-oriented and will not
closely follow the structure of the presentations in either the Lab
Manual or Norton's Star Atlas. To help you coordinate the
material, notes for the lecture presentations will be posted
here, usually the day of the relevant lecture. Most will be in
HTML format for easiest retrieval over the Web, but you may need an Adobe PostScript or Acrobat reader for some
material.
To take full advantage of the notes, you should print out a hardcopy
of each guide before the lecture, read it over, and bring it to class
with you. Some sets of notes will have good coverage of the lecture,
but others will hit only the main points and some of the more important
figures. You should plan to fill in the other presented material with
your own notes.
Web links to other useful information or pertinent illustrations are
included on the guides and on the ASTR 130 Web
Links page. You are encouraged to use these to make the subject
matter more interesting or clear...but you are not required to know
any of this additional material (unless discussed in class).
Regardless of this generous posting of lecture material, you
should plan on attending all lectures.
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