Astronomy with an online telescope

Introduction and guidance\n	Introduction and guidance\nWeek 1: The night sky\n	Introduction\n	1 Finding your way around the sky using Stellarium software\n	2 The apparent motion of objects in the night sky\n	3 Mapping the night sky\n	4 This week’s quiz\n	5 Summary of Week 1\nWeek 2: Telescopes and visual observing\n	Introduction\n	1 Observing with the naked eye\n	2 Observing with optical instruments\n	3 Observing from the Earth\n	4 The COAST facility\n	5 This week’s quiz\n	6 Summary of Week 2\nWeek 3: Stellar magnitudes\n	Introduction\n	1 Brightness of the stars\n	2 Magnitude limits\n	3 Your limits\n	4 This week’s quiz\n	5 Summary of Week 3\nWeek 4: Imaging Messier objects with COAST\n	Introduction\n	1 Messier objects\n	2 Requesting your first image\n	3 Collecting your first image\n	4 This week’s quiz\n	5 Summary of Week 4\nWeek 5: The Sun and the stars\n	Introduction\n	1 Continue observing with COAST\n	2 The Sun as an ordinary star\n	3 What powers the Sun and stars?\n	4 Comparing the Sun with other stars\n	5 This week’s quiz\n	6 Summary of Week 5\nWeek 6: Classifying the stars\n	Introduction\n	1 Refine and edit your COAST images\n	2 Classifying stars – the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram\n	3 The masses of stars\n	4 The lifecycles of stars\n	5 This week’s quiz\n	6 Summary of Week 6\nWeek 7: Variable stars\n	Introduction\n	1 Stellar evolution after the main sequence\n	2 Variable stars\n	3 Collaboration in observing\n	4 Plan your own variable star observations using COAST\n	5 This week’s quiz\n	6 Summary of Week 7\nWeek 8: Building a light curve\n	Introduction\n	1 Retrieving your images\n	2 Measuring the brightness of your variable star\n	3 Building the light curve\n	4 This week’s quiz\n	5 Summary of Week 8\n	6 Concluding thoughts\nReferences\nAcknowledgements