SAO

I was enrolled in this program from 2000-2002 to earn my Master of Science in Astronomy degree. It is a distance learning program based in Australia that allowed me to study on my own schedule, without having set class times. Since I develop distance learning materials for a living, I decided that this was an appropriate method for seeking my degree. If you would like more information on this exciting program, click the link above.

The Projects

One of the requirements in each class was the completion of an observing or research project. This page serves as a portal to the various projects that I worked on.

Course	Project	Published
HET 602 Exploring the Solar System	Fuelling Interplanetary Travel	June 14, 2000
HET 603 Exploring the Stars and the Milky Way	Solar Observing (Sunspots)	June 14, 2000
HET 604 Exploring Galaxies and the Cosmos	Are Spiral Galaxies Round?	Dec. 2, 2000
HET 606 Tools of Modern Astronomy	The Search for Extra-Solar Planets	Dec. 2, 2000
HET 607 History of Astronomy	Sunwatchers: A Survey of Chacoan Astronomical Sites	June 15, 2002
HET608 Introductory Radio Astronomy and SETI	Calculating a Free-Free Absorption Model for PKS 1718-649	Dec. 1, 2001
HET 609 Astrophotography and CCD Imaging	Galactic Photometry	May 22, 2001
HET 610 Studies in Space Exploration	A Mission to Ceres	June 12, 2001
HET 611 Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics	Creating a Color-Magnitude Diagram for Open Cluster M67	May 31, 2002
HET 615 Major Project: Astrophotography and CCD Imaging	Radio Trends: Optically Identifying 20cm sources Paper(PDF) \| Poster(PPT)	Dec. 1, 2001
HET 616 Great Debates in Astronomy	How Rare is Rare? Evaluating the Rare Earth Hypothesis	Nov. 16, 2002
HET 617 Major Project: Computational Astrophysics	System Dynamics: Planet V and the Lunar Late Heavy Bombardment Paper(PDF) \| Poster(PPT)	Nov. 16, 2002

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The Projects

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