PROJECT CLEA: Contemporary Laboratory Experiences in Astronomy

New Manuals are available on the CLEA website provided by a long-time user! VIREO-based manuals for CLEA's observational exercises and revised and edited versions of the old manuals can be downloaded in MS-Word format. Thanks for your continued interest in Project CLEA.

If you are within driving distance of Gettysburg College, plan to attend the 33rd annual Central Pennsylvania Astronomers' Meeting on April 13, 2013. Information and free registration forms are at http://public.gettysburg.edu/~marschal/CPC/CPCastro33.html

CLEA'S CD-ROMS ARE NOW AVAILABLE AS LARGE DOWNLOADS (300-600 Mb) DIRECTLY FROM THE CLEA WEBSITE

TRANSIT OF VENUS Lab Software Update---Go to the CLEA website at http://public.gettysburg.edu/~marschal/clea/Transitlab.html
To upload a new Transit of Venus software update (installs over your old one if you have the images already loaded)--it resolves issues that prevented easy display, animation, and measuring of images under Windows 7. The Update is called TransitLabUpd.exe

PROJECT CLEA: ASTROMETRY OF ASTEROIDS This exercise enables students to observe images of the transit of Venus of June 8, 2004, and use measurements of those images of the sun from three terrestrial sites to determine the number of kilometers in an Astronomical Unit. The exercise uses images obtained by the GONG proj...