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Terminated in academic year 2023/2024

Astronomy

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 544-0089/02
Abbreviation A
Course title Astronomy
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Geodesy and Mine Surveying
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Jan Kostelecký, DrSc.

Subject syllabus

1. History of astronomy, constellations, names of stars, data sources
2. Spherical astronomy I
3. Spherical astronomy II
4. Celestial mechnics I
5. Celestial mechnics II
6. Solar system
7. Astrophysics - spectral classification
8. Binary and multiple stars, Galaxy, basic of cosmology
9. Some problems from spherical astronomy
10. Some problemas from celestial mechanics I
11. Some problemas from celestial mechanics II
12. Astronomical time systems
13. Precession and nutation
14. Parallax
15. Some problems of today´s astrophysics

Literature

FIXEL JAN, MACHOTKA RADOVAN: Geodetická astronomie a kosmická geodézie I. Brno, 2007.
MELICHER, J. A KOL.: Geodetická astronómia a základy kozmickej geodézie, Alfa Bratislava, 1993.
KULHÁNEK PETR A KOL.: Astronomie a astrofyzika - souvislosti, Nakladatelství Aldebaran, 2018.
THOMSON DONALD B.: Introduction To Geodetic Astronomy. University of New Brunswick, Canada, 1997.

Advised literature

KLECZEK, J.: Velká encyklopedie vesmíru. Academia, Praha, 2002.
KULHÁNEK PETR: Moderní kosmologie. Hvězdárna Valašské Meziříčí, 2011.
ZEJDA, Pavel. Základy astronomie 1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2022. Učební text.
HAWKING STEPHEN: Brief Answers to the Big Questions, John Murray Publishers, 2018, 256 stran.
HANSLMEIER, Arnold. Introduction to Astronomy and Astrophysics. Berlin: Springer, 2023. ISBN 978-3-662-64636-6 . DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-64637-3.
Michael Zeilik: Astronomy: The Evolving Universe, Cambridge University Press, 2002, ISBN 0521800900, 9780521800907,pgs: 552
Marc Leslie Kutner, Astronomy: A Physical Perspective,Cambridge University Press, 2003,ISBN 0521529271 , 9780521529273,
pgs: 582