mcnalu's musings
Astro
Here are some of my astronomy related offerings.
Podcasts
I'm involved in a few podcasts. You can find my astronomy-related ones entitled A beginner's guide to the night sky on Hacker Public Radio, along with some other more computer-related musings.
Lectures
I've given various lectures on astronomy over the years and here you'll find some slides I used for them.
As far as possible I've used resources that are released under Creative Commons licenses or that are Public Domain, and all of the content I've created is licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 - see below for more detail.
Stars and the Universe
These lectures are the first part of a 22 week course I'm doing for the University of Glasgow in the winter of 2013/14. More will appear in due course.
- Our view of the Universe
- Distances
- Stars - observations
- Stars - colour and spectrum
- Stars- sizes and types
- Stars - spectra and atoms
- Stars - evolution
- Stars - death
- Black holes and relativity
- Milky Way - observations
- Milky Way - theories
- Other galaxies
- Galaxy evolution
- Active galaxies
- Cosmology - First observations
- Cosmology - models
- Cosmology - observational
- Cosmology - current
All these astronomy lectures by Andrew Conway are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.