| asteroid parallax | How the distance to an asteroid was determined, and thus the size of the astronomical unit. |
| polar align | The basics of how to perform a proper polar alignment. |
| Variable stars | Observing the variable star Algol |
| Cepheid distance | Determining the Cepheid variable period-magnitude relationship. |
| galaxy distance | What do we mean when we say a galaxy is a certain distance away? |
| measure double | Measure the separation and position angle of a double star. |
| Observing program | Why set up an observing program and how to go about it. |
| online resources | There are many astronomical indexes and databases on line. Here are some of them. |
| planet orbit | Use astrophotography to determine a planetary orbit. |
| spinning sun | Work out how long it takes the Sun to rotate on its axis. |
| imaging 1 | What are the types of imagers available. |
| imaging 2 | Ways of mounting an imager/camera for taking astrophotographs. |
| imaging 3 | What are flat, dark and bias frames anyways? |
| standard mag | Convert a computed instrumental magnitude to a standard magnitude for photometry work. |
| tides | Just what are tides anyways? |
| moon height | Measure the hight of a mountain on the Moon! |
| measure moons 1 | Use a telescope to determine the position of the Jovian Galilean moons. |
| measure moons 2 | Use the data from Measure Moons 1 to work out the orbits and periods of the Galilean moons. |
| tully-fisher | Use the Tully-Fisher relationship to measure the distance to spiral galaxies. |
| venus elongation | Measure the greatest elongation of Venus and hence the distance from Venus to the Sun. |
| sunspot | Count sunspots and track solar activity over time. |
| galaxy centre | Use the Galactic system of globular clusters to work out the distance to the centre of our Galaxy. |
| Jupiter distance | Use some simple observations and some geometry to work out how far Jupiter is from the Sun. |
| listen meteor | Use distant FM stations to detect meteors. |
| Venus au | How a transit of Venus can be used to determine the value of the astronomical unit. |
| colour mag | Use CCD photometry to make a colour magnitude diagram of a cluster. |
| weigh sun | Use your bathroom scale to weigh the Sun! |
