Astronomy 1070: Earth—Its Physical Environment

Constellation Project

• Project Assignment.  The project, its components, and grading rubrics.
• Constellation information resources where you can learn about your constellation and its members.
• Instructions for making the frame for your 3-D constellation model (PDF).
• Instructions for using the Excel spreadsheet to make a picture of your constellation (PDF).
• The spreadsheet to make the constellation picture (Excel worksheet).
• Star temperature table giving temperatures of stars from their spectral classes.
  
• Instructions for using the Excel spreadsheet to plot a star on a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (PDF).
• Hertzsprung-Russell plot spreadsheet. Enter luminosity and temperature data, get the H-R diagram.  If you don’t know the star’s absolute magnitude but you do know its apparent magnitude and its trigonometric parallax, this spreadsheet can also calculate the absolute magnitude for you.