Duration: 3 months
Starting date: 8th March 2020
Medium: English
Date and time: Every Sunday 01.00 am to 05.00 pm
Payment option: Clients who willing to pay from our office can pay course fee 5000 LKR per monthly basis.
Junior Certificate Course in Astronomy
ASTR 310-General Astronomy, 2 weeks, 4hr per week
• This unit discusses more details about, different aspects about the sun; solar structure and solar surface activities, magnetic field of the sun, solar neutrinos and solar wind, planetary behavior- precession, liberation, sidereal and synodic periods and retrograde motions of solar system planets along with planetary configurations (elongation, conjunction, opposition, quadrature) and phenomena (tides, seasons, eclipses, aurorae, meteor showers).
ASTR 311- Basic Astrophysics I, 2 weeks and 4hr per week
• Newton’s Laws of Gravitation, Kepler’s Laws for circular,
• Trigonometric parallax, Luminosity and Distance modules, Flux, Intensity and Doppler shift
ASTR 320 & 321-Telescopes, Observation and Times, 2 weeks, 4hr per week
• Developing a solid observational understanding of the night sky,
• Types of telescopes- setting up and aligning
• Identification of constellation asterisms, zodiac and coordination systems
• Use of star maps, mobile apps and computer software
• Solar Observation with Coronado Solar MAX II 60 mm double stack solar telescope (Finest solar telescope in Sri Lanka)
ASTR 330- Cosmology I, 2 weeks 4hr per week
• This course strongly focus on the history of cosmology
• Newton and Einstein universe
• Hubble law
• big bang theory
• redshift
ASTR 331-Solar System and Earth Science, Sun and Stellar evolution 3 weeks, 4hr per week
• Introduction to Solar system, origin and formation
• Inner planets and asteroid belt
• Outer planets and Kuiper belt, Oort Cloud, comets
• Sun and it's activities
• Stellar evolution
ASTR 340-Space Exploration, 1 week, 4hr per week
• Introduction for launching vehicles and the history of rockets
• Parts of a rockets
• Orbits, Lagrangian point
• Important mission details
• Apollo 11 mission and Mars mission
• Future missions Europa
• Space station & mission control centres