Activities include both outdoor observing sessions and indoor lab exercises.
Outdoor sessions emphasize learning the night sky and hands-on use of telescopes.
Indoor laboratories emphasize data analysis through the use of celestial globes, spectroscopes, computer simulation, and image processing. Students enrolled in this course also attend the lecture of 315-17500, Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe, as well as meet for an additional weekly evening lab. This course is not open to students with prior credit in 315-17500.