| Time and place: | Campus Observatory (unless otherwise announced), located on Yale Blvd. NE, 2 blocks north of Lomas. The labs take place 7-9PM (8-10PM after the clocks change). |
| Lab instructor: | Travis McIntyre, email tpm@unm.edu
Prof. Y. Pihlström, phone 277-4492 |
| Attendance: | There will not be much take-home work, since the labs are generally meant to be finished during the lab period. This does mean that you need to come to lab every week. Bring your calculator and a pencil. There may not be any time for make-up labs, so it is very important that you come each and every week. Your grade will be dropped a letter grade for each lab missed. Since this is a ground-based optical observatory, clouds can be a problem. However, we will have lab on cloudy nights, so do show up every week. |
| Lab reports: | The labs will be self-contained, and you will be provided with the material as the semester goes along. You have to write neatly and show all work to get full credit. Lab reports are due at the end of each class, unless otherwise announced. |
| Field trip: | One field trip is planned to the Very Large Array, the radio telescope array 45 miles west of Socorro operated by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. |