Introduction to Astrophysics -- Physics 590 -- Professor Kielkopf

• Earth's Atmosphere
• Telescope optics with OSLO
• Handout (pdf version)
• Parabolic mirror lens file
• Lambda Research web site for downloading OSLO-EDU (Linux and Windows)
• CCD Detectors
• A Bright Quasar
• Nature Article (available from louisville.edu only)
• SIMBAD (Astronomical Database)
• MAST Multimission Archive at Space Telescope
• SAOImage DS9: Astronomical Data Visualization
• HST Fits Image (very large file)
• Color magnitude diagrams from the Hipparcos star catalog
• Color magnitude diagram and distance modulus for M67
• CCD photometry of the old open cluster M67, AJ 106, 181 (1993)
• The White Dwarf Cooling Age of M67, ApJ 504, L91 (1998)
• Saha ionization equilibrium
• Zero-age main sequence
• Pleiades - Colors, Distance, and 3D Visualization
• Digital Universe with Partiview (Hayden Planetarium)
• Partiview -- Nearby Galaxies
• Partiview -- Nearby Galaxies (pdf version)
• Additional files for adding nearby galaxies to Partiview
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey Home
• Partiview -- Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• Partiview -- Sloan Digital Sky Survey (pdf version)
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey Visual Tools

• U.S. Naval Observatory Time Service
• Systems of Time
• Colors of Stars
• MAST Multimission Archive at Space Telescope
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Visual Tools
• Blanchard: Cosmological Parameters
• CDS/SIMBAD Astronomical Database
• Largest Optical Telescopes
• Connecting Quarks to the Cosmos

• Partiview (NCSA)
• Digital Universe with Partiview (Hayden Planetarium)
• Cosmus: Open Source Astrophysical Visualization
• Map of the Universe Website and Astrophysical Journal Article

• National Institute of Standards and Technology: Fundamental Physical Constants
• Space Telescope Institute
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• National Optical Astronomy Observatory Image Gallery
• NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service
• NASA Planetary Data System
• Moore Observatory
• Sky & Telescope