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Most of these will be available in the College bookstore, except
the Moore and Audubon Society texts will be available at a discount from Orca Books in downtown Olympia.
Krupp is out of print - please find a copy - see info below.
* Universe, Edition 5, by William Kaufmann III and Roger Freedman (1999, W.H. Freeman, NY, ISBN 0-7167-3495-8, pbk. You MUST have Edition 5, because other editions have different chapters and problems.)
* Introductory Astronomy Excercises,
by Dale C. Ferguson (2nd Ed., 2001, Brooks/Cole / Thomson Learning, ISBN
0-534-37977-x or 0-534-37797-x, pbk
* Out of the Classroom, by Dennis W.
Dawson (2002, Brooks/Cole ISBN 0-534-38015-8 pbk)
* National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Night Sky(2000, Alfred A. Knopf, NY, ISBN 0-679-40852-5 pbk)
* Stars
of the First People, by Dorcas S. Miller (1997, Pruett Publishing,
Boulder, ISBN 0-87108-858-4 pbk)
23.Feb: The Bookstore says this is out of print, so
we will make it a *recommended but *not required text. If you can
find a used copy somewhere, pick it up.
* Exploring the night sky with binoculars, by Patrick Moore (2000, Cambridge Univ. Press, ISBN 0521 79390-4 pbk)
* Echoes of the Ancient
Skies, by E.C. Krupp (1983, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-10-508801-8,
pbk)
The College bookstore tells
us in late March that this is out of print! Please find
a copy. Here are some suppliers:
* Orca books downtown may have some
* Powell's Books in Portland has about a dozen: http://www.powells.com
* Search at http://addall.com
yields dozens of copies in various used bookstores scattered around the
country
* as a last resort, try the supermarket book chains
where you pay a premium price (B&N, Amazon, ...)
* Prehistoric Astronomy in the Southwest, by J. McKim Malville and Claudia Putnam (1989, Johnson Books, Boulder, ISBN 1-55566-116-5, pbk) if the bookstore can get it. This will be useful if the class decides to organize a fieldtrip to Chaco Canyon.
REQUIRED EQUIPMENT:
Most of these will be available in the College bookstore,
except the binoculars and flashlights.
| Planisphere, a flat plastic disc starfinder | Binoculars (10 x 50), with a tripod mount and tripod | Observing notebook with unlined pages |
| Protractor, a flat plastic semicircular tool for measuring angles | Flashlight with the lens painted or taped red. | 3-ring binder for your portfolio |
| Clear plastic ruler (ruled in centimeters) |
Recommended but not required: calculator
(with scientific notation and trigonometric functions) You do NOT
need a fancy graphing calculator.
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