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Fall 2010 Calendar

Fall 2010 Final Exam Schedule

Some Useful Astronomy Links:

A. Bay Area Interests:

• 1. Planetarium:
• Morrison Planetarium
• William Knox Holt Planetarium
• 2. Science Museum:
• The Exploratorium
• Lawrence Hall of Science
• 3. Public Outreach:
• San Francisco Amateur Astronomers
• 4.Astronomy Education (Undergraduate & Graduate):
• University of California, Berkeley (Cal)
• University of California, Santa Cruz
• San Francisco State University
• Stanford University
• 5. Astronomy Education (K-12):
• Hands-on-Universe
• Project ASTRO
• Chabot Observatory
• Lick Observatory

B. National Institutes in Astronomy & Astrophysics:

• 1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• 2. National Optical Astronomical Observatories
• 3. National Radio Astronomical Observatory
• 4. Space Telescope Science Institute

C. Selected List of Ground-Based Large Scale Sky Survey:

• 1. Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)
• 2. The Two-Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)
• 3. Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-centimeters (FIRST)
• 4. The Deep Extragalactic Evolutionary Probe (DEEP)

D. Professional Organization in Astronomy & Astrophysics:

• 1. American Astronomical Society
• 2. Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• 3. The International Astronomical Union

E. Top-Notch Research Institutes in Astronomy & Astrophysics:

• 1. East Coast Region:
• Harvard University
• Johns Hopkins University
• Princeton University
• The Institute of Advanced Study
• 2. Midwest Region:
• The University of Chicago (Chicago)
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Northwestern University
• 3. West Coast Region:
• The University of Arizona
• California Institute of Technology (CalTech)
• University of Califronia, Berkeley (Cal)
• University of California, Santa Cruz
• University of California, Los Angeles
• University of Washington

F. Other Useful Links: