This page describes what an angular distance is, and how you can measure it.

This page will be used in the various planet orbit labs. It describes how you figure out where to plot a planet on a star map, by making careful measurements of the angular distance from several bright stars to that planet.

This pages describes a method for measuring the angular size of an object observed through the telescope.

All about the various different conventions for star names that you will see in books, in the lab descriptions, and in your star charts.

Here are the various templates that are referenced by the labs:

• Observation Template, Large Version
• Observation Template, Small Version
• Mars Template
• Jupiter Template
• Saturn Template