1. Light, Colors & Stars Using Spectroscopy to Investigate Temperature, Motion & Composition at a Distance A Question & Story to start us off

2. Spectrum Overview

3. The Visible Spectrum You Tube Video: Relative size of Visible Spectrum

4. www.ecse.rpi.edu/.../chap18/chap18.htm Black Body Simulation Wien’s Law http://itl.chem.ufl.edu/4412_aa/Gifs/pc0_02.gif

5. Spectroscopy & Composition 1802, William Hyde Wollaston 1814, Joseph von Fraunhofer http://www.thespectroscopynet.com/Index.html?/History_1.html

6. Origins of Spectrochemistry 1832, J F Herschel –Coloration of flame 1913, Bohr’s atom –Explains simple line spectra http://conservation-science.ch/56-2- chemistry-flame-test.html http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/teachers/lessons/xray_spectra/student-worksheet-flame.html Bohr Model Applet with Spectrum Bohr Model Flash Animation

7. Kirchhoff’s Laws 1859, Gustav Robert Kirchhoff & Robert Bunsen –Reversibility of lines –Unique/specific to element Hot & Dense: continuous Hotter & Not Dense: emission lines Cooler & Not Dense absorption lines Temp is relative to background http://www.thespectroscopynet.com/Index.html?/History_1.html https://www.e-education.psu.edu/astro801/content/l3_p6.html

8. Solar Radiation & Atmospheric Filtering www.ecse.rpi.edu/.../chap18/chap18.htm Molecules & Light Sim

9. Our Atomosphere the Filter: Hidden by the Atmosphere UVX-RayIR

10. Where to put your telescope?

11. Red/Blue Shift http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/ news/2003/07/59481 odin.physastro.mnsu.edu/.../astr101/week5.html Doppler Simulation Though Sim is for sound waves, the principle works the same

12. Motion of Galaxies http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/tba/universe-confirms-bible

13. Application of Absorption Spectrum & Doppler http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1998/41/image/r