International Year of Astronomy - South Africa

The ESA/ESO Astronomy Exercise Series


The ESA/ESO Astronomy Exercise Series -
Student exercises in astronomy using observations from the  NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the ESA telescopes (.pdf):

  • Introduction
  • Tool kits
  • Exercise 1 - Measuring the Distance to Supernova 1987A
  • Exercise 2 - The Distance to M100 as Determined by Cepheid Variable Stars
  • Exercise 3 - Measuring the Distance to the Cat's Eye Nebula
  • Exercise 4 - Measuring a Globular Star Cluster's Distance And Age
  • Exercise 6 - The mass of the black hole at the centre of our Milky Way
  • Exercise 7 - The Distance to M100 as Determined by Photometry of Cepheid Variable Stars using the EU-HOU Salsa-J Software

Note: There is no exercise 5 on the disk.

ESA = European Space Agency
ESO = European Southern Observatory