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This is a hybrid course in which all deadlines and due dates are posted for assignments and assessments with a specific time for submission. Do you confirm your knowledge and agreement with the following rules? Any assignment (quiz, lab report, homework, etc.) not submitted on Canvas on time in the appropriate format asked will not be graded. Assignments emailed to the professor will not be graded.    

According to Chapter 3, what should always be included within the introductory paragraph?

The simplest telescope design is the prime focus reflector.

Do you have any ACCESS Accommodations for this semester that I should be informed of?   

The largest reflector, the 10 m Keck, gathers __________ X more light than the largest 1 m Yerkes refractor.

A telescope design that uses a lens and no mirrors is a refractor.

Photography with film is still the preferred way of capturing fine detail in the faintest, most distant galaxies.

The “guest star” observed by the Chinese in 1054 is now known to have been a __________.

The three laws of planetary motion by ________________ allowed us to predict planetary motion.

The ability of a telescope to separate two closely spaced stars is called ______ .