Lecture Schedule

#	Title	OpenStax Astronomy 2e Reading	Paired Lab/PS
01	Measuring the Stars: Luminosity, Temperature, and Radius	Ch. 18.1–18.2	Lab 01 / PS 01
02	Reading Starlight: Spectra and Spectral Classification	Ch. 17.1–17.4
03	How Far Are the Stars? Parallax, Magnitudes, and Distance	Ch. 19.1–19.2	Lab 02 / PS 02
04	Inside a Star: Structure and Nuclear Energy Generation	Ch. 15.4–15.5, 16.1–16.2
05	Stellar Nurseries: The Interstellar Medium and Star Formation	Ch. 20.1–20.2, 21.1	Lab 03 / PS 03
06	Life After the Main Sequence: Giants, Clusters, and Stellar Aging	Ch. 22.1–22.3
07	The Death of Sun-Like Stars: White Dwarfs and the Chandrasekhar Limit	Ch. 23.1	Lab 04 / PS 04
08	Cataclysmic Endings: Supernovae, Neutron Stars, and Pulsars	Ch. 23.2–23.4
09	Black Holes and Curved Spacetime	Ch. 24.1–24.3	Lab 05 / PS 05
10	The Milky Way: Structure, Rotation, and the Case for Dark Matter	Ch. 25.1–25.4
11	Sorting the Galaxies: The Hubble Tuning Fork and Galaxy Properties	Ch. 26.1–26.3	Lab 06 / PS 06
12	Active Galaxies and Galaxy Evolution	Ch. 27.1–27.4, 28.1–28.2
13	The Cosmic Web: Large-Scale Structure and Dark Energy	Ch. 28.3–28.5	Lab 07 / PS 07
14	Hubble's Law and the Big Bang: Observational Cosmology	Ch. 29.1–29.3

Lab Schedule

Lab	Title	Real Data Source
01	Building a Hertzsprung–Russell Diagram from Real Nearby and Bright Stars	Hipparcos/Gaia-era catalog values for 20 well-known nearby and bright stars
02	Distance Modulus, Parallax, and the Sun's Nuclear Energy Budget	Real parallax/apparent-magnitude data (same star sample as Lab 01); solar luminosity/mass-loss constants
03	Main-Sequence Lifetimes and a Star Cluster's Turnoff Age	Mass–luminosity relation applied to real spectral-type mass estimates; realistic open-cluster turnoff luminosity
04	White Dwarf Density and the Chandrasekhar Limit: Sirius B	Sirius B measured mass, radius, and luminosity (Bond et al. 2017, Hipparcos)
05	The Milky Way's Rotation Curve and the Dark Matter Budget	Representative published Milky Way circular-velocity curve (flat ~220–235 km/s from R = 5–25 kpc)
06	Classifying Real Galaxies on the Hubble Tuning Fork	Well-documented morphological types and properties of M31, M87, M101, M104, M82, NGC 1300
07	Hubble's Law: Distance, Redshift, and the Age of the Universe	Classic five-cluster redshift–distance data set (Virgo, Ursa Major, Corona Borealis, Bootes, Hydra)