Acknowledgements
This free course was first published in July 2019. It was written and produced by:
Authors and presenters; Jo Jarvis, Alan Cayless, Simon Clark, Stella Bradbury, Ulrich Kolb, Meredith Morrell, Colin Snodgrass.
Programmers; Geoff Austin, James Smith.
Contributors; thanks to Helen Fraser for advice and guidance
Contributors; Angela Lamont and Andrew Rix – filming and video production.
IAC/ODT; Miquel Serra-Ricart, Nayra Rodrigues-Eugenio, Rafael Rebolo.
With thanks to the staff and facilities of the IAC and ODT for their support and cooperation in the filming and production of this Badged Open Course.
Stellarium: https://www.stellarium.org [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] GNU General Public License (GPL).
Sybilla Technologies (AstroDrive)
OpenScience Laboratory
This course has made use of the VizieR catalogue access tool, CDS, Strasbourg, France.
COAST telescope: Sybilla Technologies
Videos Section 2.2 and 2.3: NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence.
The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course:
Images
Course image: © Alan Cayless
Week 1
Figures 1, 5 and 12: © Alan Cayless
Figures 2, 3, 4, 7 and 10: © Stellarium: http://stellarium.org
Figure 9: TWCarlson; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
Week 2
Figure 1, 3, 4 and 5: © Alan Cayless
Figure 2: © Stellarium: http://stellarium.org
Week 3
Figure 1 and 1a: © Alan Cayless
Week 4
Figure 1: taken from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Messier
Figure 2: NASA, ESA, J. Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State University)
Figure 3 and 5: © Alan Cayless
Figure 4: © Stellarium: http://stellarium.org
Week 5
Figure 1: © NASA
Figure 2: Courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams
Figure 3: Alamy
Figure 4: © NASA
Figure 5: taken from: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/4%2C030%2C000%2C000_Years_Acasta_Gneiss.jpg
Figure 6: taken from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#/media/File:Albert_Einstein_Head.jpg
Figure 7 and 8: © Alan Cayless
Week 6
Figure 1: © Stellarium: http://stellarium.org
Figures 2, 3, 4 and 7: © Alan Cayless
Figure 5: ESO; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Week 7
Figure 1, 2, 4 and 10: © Alan Cayless
Figure 6: taken from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leavitt_aavso.jpg;
Figure 7: © NASA, ESA and Z.Levay (STScl); Science Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) and the American Association of Variable Star Observers
Figure 8: © NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
Figure 9: © David Anderson; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/
Figure 10: Telescope.org
Week 8
Figure 1, 2: © Alan Cayless
Videos
Week 5
Video 2: Activity 3; NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center; The Sun in Ultra-High Definition (4k) Video; https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12034
Video 3: © NASA,SDO
Video 4: © Alan Cayless
Week 6
Video 1: The Open University
Week 7
Video 3: ESO; https://www.eso.org
Thanks also to:
NASA Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Week 8
Video 3: © Alan Cayless; Stellarium: http://stellarium.org
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