Telescopes

• Field of view and LSST
• Light detection: CCD for (Hubble, Pan-STARRS, LSST)
• Invisible astronomy

  Radio (CARMA, VLA, Arecibo)

  Infrared (Spitzer, Sofia, James Webb Space Telescope [under construction])

  X-ray (Chandra, XMM-Newton)

  gamma-ray (Fermi, H.E.S.S., Veritas)

Changing Gears: The Big Picture

The Solar System

The Solar System: Introduction and Overview

• Census: Solar System lineup
• orbit viewer applet
• Planet Properties

  distance

  diameter

  mass and density

  spin