ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 74.25 Hours of tutorials: 2.25 Expository Class: 18 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 112.5
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Applied Mathematics
Areas: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Center Faculty of Optics and Optometry
Call: First Semester
Teaching: Sin docencia (Extinguida)
Enrolment: No Matriculable
The course is of practical character but the basic theoretical concepts are also required. In this sense, development of each topic and practical classes are mixed in with the theory in order to apply the obtained knowledge rapidly. The students will simultaneously perform astronomical observations and class work with the aim to become familiar with the basic methods used in astronomy.
- The Earth: shape and movements.
- The celestial sphere. Astronomical coordinate systems.
- Kepler's Laws. Law of Newton.
- Observable objects.
- Astronomical instrumentation.
- Introduction to Astrophysics
THE BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ABAD, A.; DOCOBO, J. A. y ELIPE A.: “Curso de Astronomía”, Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2017.
- ARRANZ, P.: “Guia de campo de las constelaciones” Equipo Sirius 2003.
- BAKULIN, P. I.; KONONOVICH,E. V. y MOROZ, V. I.: "Curso de Astronomía General", Editorial MIR, Moscova, 1985. (in English)
- GALADI, D. y GUTIERREZ, G.: “Astronomía general: teoría y práctica” Omega 2001.
GRAY, R. O. and CORBALLY, CH. J. “Stellar spectral classification” Princeton University Press, 2009.
- LING, J. F.: "Coordenadas astronómicas. Medida do tempo". Unidade didáctica 5. Ed. Vicerreitoría de Estudantes ,Cultura e Formación Continua e Servizo de Publicacións da USC 2013.
- MARTINEZ, V. y otros “Astronomía Fundamental” Univ. Valencia 2005.
THE COMPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
- DOCOBO, J. A. y ELIPE, A. “280 problemas resueltos” Ed. 1998.
- ORUS, J. J. y otros: "Astronomía esférica y mecánica celeste" . Pub. Universitat de Barcelona, 2007
- PASACHOFF, J. M.: Astronomy : from the Earth to the Universe Philadelphia [etc.] : Saunders College, cop.1991.
- VORONTOSOV-VELIAMINOV, B.A. : “Problemas y ejercicios prácticos de Astronomía”. Moscú Mir. 1979
The competencies that students must acquire in the subject Basic Astronomy, according to the Memory of the Degree in Optics and Optometry, are:
Basic and general
All: CB1, CB2, CB3, CB4.CB5 and CG1 (Memory of the Degree in Optics and Optometry, page 5)
Transversal
CT1 - That they acquire analysis and synthesis capacity.
CT2 - That they acquire capacity for organization and planning.
CT6 - That they acquire information management capacity.
CT7 - That they acquire the ability to solve problems.
CT8 - That they acquire skills in decision making.
CT9 - That they know how to work as a team.
CT12 - That they acquire skills in interpersonal relationships.
CT14 - That the student acquires skills for the issuance of a critical argument.
CT16 - That the student be able to perform an autonomous apprenticeship
CT17 - That they are able to adapt to the new situations.
CT22 - That they are motivated by the work quality
Specific
CE5 - That the student be able to express opinions, reports and overviews whenever necessary.
CE6 - That the student can assess and incorporate the technological advances necessary for the proper development of their professional activity.
CE9 - That the student can expand and update their skills for professional practice through continuing education.
Specific to the subject
- To make a first contact with the basics of Astronomy.
- Knowledge of instrumentation intended for optical astronomy.
- To train students for carrying out various astronomical observations
Lectures (in hours):
1. Introduction. The Earth: shape and dimensions, motions. Geographical coordinates (3)
2. The celestial sphere and its diurnal motion. Annual motion. Ecliptic Distance units. (3)
3. Celestial coordinates. (2)
4. Kepler’s Laws. Newton’s Law and orbit types. (3)
5. Observable objects of solar system ( 4).
6. Stars, constellations and the Milky Way. Star clusters, nebulae and galaxies (2)
7. Astronomical instrumentation. Telescopes and binoculars. Electronical & digital detectors (2)
8. Electromagnetic radiation. Planck formula. Stefan-Boltzmann and Wien Laws. (3)
9. Stellar magnitudes. . Law of Weber-Fechner. Luminosity. Spectral types. (3)
Practices:
There will be 4 compulsory practices to be carried out at the Ramón María Aller Astronomical Observatory (USC) facilities and attending both to the capacity and health security measures established by the Observatory and the USC.
2 night practices:
- Telescopic observation of various objects 2 hours laboratory
- The practical use of the Planisphere and identification of constellations. 3 hours laboratory. This practice is usually done in a dark sky location.
2 daytime practices:
Assembly of a portable telescope ( 2 hours laboratory).
Description and handling of Planisphere (1 hour laboratory)
The grade of the Subject will not be lower than that of the final exam or that obtained by weighing it with Continuous Evaluation, giving the latter a weight of 30%.
The Continuous Evaluation will be assessed according to the following criteria:
a) Attendance and active participation in classes and practices (máx. 2 points)
b) Realization of a voluntary work proposed by the professor (máx. 2 points)
c) other contributions (máx. 1 point)
Apart from that, there will be two voluntary and liberatory partial Subject Controls. To pass each of them, a grade equal to or greater than 5 points must be obtained.
To pass the Subject, it is compulsory to attend the practices.
The qualification of the Subject will be "not presented" when the student has incurred simultaneously in all the following circumstances: did not attend more than 75% of the lectures and more than 50% of the practices without duly justified cause; did not deliver any work; did not carry out the Subject Controls and did not appear to the final exams.
In the cases of fraudulent performance of reports, exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations for the evaluation of student academic performance or review of grades will apply.
Class room hours:
Room classes (theory and problems): 25
Tutorials: 5
Practice: 8
Individual work:
2h a week (13 weeks) of theory. 26h
Preparation for practices 10h
Preparation for the final exam. 10h
Preparation of the individual work: 20h.
Evaluation hours: 5h.
Total workload: 109 hours.
The subject has a virtual classroom (Aula Virtual) on the Virtual Campus of the USC, where enrolled students have direct access to the essential material for monitoring and multimedia resources that improve the global vision of the concepts explained in the classroom, as well as the possibility of contacting the teaching professors through the communication tools such as MS TEAMS, e-mail, AV, etc in order to get answer to any queries or doubts.
THE CONTINGENCY PLAN
Adaptations corresponding to the teaching methodology and evaluation system planned for:
Scenario 2
- The expository teaching will be given in person or telematically in sincrone mode and alternate calls, reducing by 50% the number of students in each group. The possibility is foreseen for a part of the students to follow the classes in real time through MS Teams, which would reduce the need of the physical space.
- Practices may be carried out with a reduction of groups and according to the allowed capacity. Some practices may be replaced by others with on-line content
- The evaluation system will be in-person following the scheme described in the section "Evaluation system"
- The second chance exam will be done in person and with the same format described for the normal exam.
Scenario 3
- Expository teaching will be delivered online.
- The practices will be replaced by the preparation of reports proposed by the professor and / or some practice of on-line content such as the one cited for scenario 2.
- The Evaluation System will be carried out by telematic means (MS Teams, AV or email).
- The examination of the second opportunity will
Vakhtang Tamazian Arzakanyan
Coordinador/a- Department
- Applied Mathematics
- Area
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Phone
- 881815029
- vakhtang.tamazian [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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| 01.12.2022 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 3 |
| 06.27.2022 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 3 |