Hubble Vision 

The Legacy of the Hubble Space Telescope

An extra-mural course offered on behalf of the 
Department of Adult and Continuing Education

10 meetings, from 12th January 2009




Course Lecturers

Dr Martin Hendry
martin@astro.gla.ac.uk
Dr Alec MacKinnon
alec@astro.gla.ac.uk


Open evening at the GU Observatory for IYA2009: Monday 30th March, 8pm.
 

Directions to the Observatory can be found here.


Course Presentations



Date
Topic
slides
audio
12/01/09
A brief history of telescopes
and the Case for Space
download
part 1   part 2
19/01/09
A brief history... Part 2
download
part 1   part 2
26/01/09
HST and the solar system
download

02/02/09
HST and stellar astrophysics - part 1
download
(supp. notes)
download
09/02/09
HST and stellar astrophysics - part 2,
introduction to HST and planets
download
download
23/02/09
HST and extra-solar planets
download
download
02/03/09
HST and gravitational lensing,
and introduction to cosmology
download
download
09/03/09
HST and cosmology
download
download
23/03/09
HST and galaxy formation
download
download






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