Welcome to Paul Marquard's Astronomy Home Page

(I recommend viewing in 800 x 600 video mode. I also recommend setting your printer to not print borders or backgrounds.)

This is your opening page for the Astronomy course at Casper College and The University of Wyoming. The links on the left will take you to the various segments of the course. Consider these pages to be an outline of the material.

Note the picture above. This picture will be seen as a button on the bottom of all other pages within the Astronomy web. It is used to link back to this home page. See the home button on the bottom of the left hand column. There is also a text based home link at the top of the left hand column.

Page Layout

The layout of my Astronomy web pages is the same. However, many of the links will take you to web pages external to this web. This will include links to WebCT pages, which we will be using. If the look of the pages changes, you have likely linked to another web site. Use the BACK button on your browser to return, or BOOKMARK this page or any other to quickly return if you are lost on the web.

Note: Some laboratory pages will have no background or borders. This is to make them easier to print.

Other Web Sites

Below will be a list of Astronomy web sites. Some of them will have links in the course material also. All of them are off of this web site, so be careful not to lose your ability to return here if necessary. These are sites I have found particularly interesting and useful to the course. You will not be required to visit most of them, but they may be helpful in understanding the material. View them at your pleasure.

The web site for Astronomy Today, an old text site.

The web site for Universe, the current text book.

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Sky and Telescope Magazine

Astronomy 103, at George Mason University. I really like this site.

You might want a free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader. There could be files of this nature in the future.

This page was last updated on 08/23/01.