Lecture number Topic (+/-)………………………

1 General Introduction: Our Place in the Universe

2 Spaceship Earth – motions and size scales

3 Basic concepts

4 Local sky, Lunar motion, horizons etc.

5 Ancient Astronomy

6 The Science of Astronomy

7 Kepler’s laws and Energy

8 Energy, Physics concepts

9 Newton’s Laws

10 Newton’s Laws, gravity, circular motion

11 Orbits, Tides, Light the cosmic messenger

12 Spectra, rainbows, thermal radiation

13 Kirchoff’s laws, telescopes

14 Telescopes, seeing, color theory

15 Interferometry, European astronomy in Hawaiÿi

16 European astronomy in Hawaiÿi (Kaläkaua)

17 Introduction to the Solar system

18 The planets, formation theory

19 Our Solar System and Its Origin

20 Comets, Bodes rule, dinosaurs

21 dinosaurs, pathological science,

22 Asteroids, PanStarrs, the Sun

23 The Sun, solar wind

24 ATST, Stars, Classify

25 Star colors, HR diagram, luminosity classes etc.

26 Parallax, Doppler shift

27 Stellar Evolution, Low mass stars

28 Stellar Evolution, High mass stars

29 Star death states

30 Neutron Stars, Black holes

31 Black holes, Einstein

32 Schwarzschild metric, black hole story

33 The Galaxy, galaxies

34 Galaxies, AGN

35 AGN end, Hubble law, cosmology fractals

36 Fractals

37 Worm holes, time machines

38 Olbers paradox Dark matter and energy

39 Elementary particles, LHC, etc.

40 Legentile, 1^st observing run, Big Bang

41 Big Bang

42 the End of the Universe

43

Black Holes, Cosmology, looking for E.T., Einstein …