The redshift astronomy workbook Book

This expanded version expanded version of Maris Multimedia's best-selling astronomy software, "RedShift 3", offers students a premiere multimedia planetarium experience! "RedShift College Edition" provides a stunning combination of text, graphics, movies, narration, music, illustrations, applets, animations, and more. With a host of features such as "Nightly News", an astronomical event predictor, and "Sky Diary", "RedShift College Edition" is the most comprehensive astronomy CD-ROM available for students. The two CD-ROM package contains the "RedShift 3" planetarium software as well as a College Edition overlay. This overlay consists of seven chapters containing numerous observational exercises, mathematical tutorials, guided tours, and animations, as well as a historical narrative. The combination of interactive exercises and animations, as well as the full power of the RedShift 3 planetarium engine, makes this an easy-to-use, interactive astronomy tutorial and planetarium in one. Help your students get the most out of "RedShift 3" with the "RedShift College Edition Astronomy Workbook", the ideal exploration companion. Written by Bill O. Walker, this is a comprehensive workbook, lab manual, and field guide. Complete in 34 sections and five appendices, this workbook is designed for students, amateur astronomers, and stargazers of all kinds. Exercises lead students step-by-step through real astronomical observations using RedShift's simulations--the same observations the great astronomers made through the centuries to carve out our present understanding of the universe. Answers to the workbook exercises are available on a password-protected site for instructors only.