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Background information for CLEA exercises

We will perform several CLEA exercises during the lab sessions at this workshop. I've tried to provide some extra background information on the science behind the exercises below.

Photometry of open clusters

Solar rotation

Classification of stellar spectra

The Hubble relation
I really enjoyed teaching an introductory course on cosmology for non-science majors. For information relating directly to the CLEA exercise, see

Large-scale structure of the universe


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