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What is Astronomy ?

Introductory video

The Canadian astronomical adventure

Light

• What is light ?
• The white light spectrum
• Codes into the light
• The electromagnetic spectrum
  • Activity
• Emission spectra
• Absorbtion spectra
• Light-years
  • Activity
• Light pollution
  • Activity

Universe

• The sky of the first inhabitants/a>
  • The Amerindian
  • The Inuit
• A contemporary vison of the Universe
  • Space
  • Time
  • The arrangement of matter
• Astronomy for everyone
  • Equipment and preparation
  • How does a star finder work ?
  • Activity

Celestial visions

Astronomers

• William Frederick King
• John Stanley Plaskett
• Clarence Augustus Chant
• Carlyle Smith Beals
• Gerhard Herzberg
• Helen Sawyer Hogg
• Andrew McKellar
• Arthur Edwin Covington
• Anne Barbara Underhill
• Sidney van den Bergh
• Hubert Reeves
• René Racine
• John Barrie Hutchings
• Charles Thomas Bolton
• Jean-René Roy
• Peter Gordon Martin
• Gilles Fontaine
• John Richard Bond
• Scott Duncan Tremaine
• Jaymie Mark Matthews
• Jack Newton
• Damien Lemay
• Paul Boltwood
• David Howard Levy
• La relève

Observatories

• The first astronomical observations in Canada
• The first observatories
• The Dominion Observatory
• The Dominion Astrophysical Observatory
• The David Dunlap Observatory
• The Algonquin Radio Observatory
• The Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory
• The Rothney Astrophysical Observatory
• The Mont-Mégantic Observatory
• The Canada-France-Hawaii Observatory
• The James-Clerk-Maxwell Observatory
• The University of British-Columbia Liquid-Mirror Observatory
• The Gemini North and South Observatory
• The FUSE Space Telescope
• The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
• The Cosmic Background Imager
• The Odin Space Observatory
• The MOST Space Telescope
• The Atacama Large Millimeter Array
• The James Webb Space Telescope

Instruments

• The human eye
• The first instruments
• Refracting telescopes
• Reflecting telescopes
• Invisible light collectors
• Photographic plates
• Filters
• Photometers
• Infrared cameras
• CCD cameras
• Spectrometers
• Polarimeters
• Interferometers
• Adaptive optics

Glossary

Links

Sources

Where has the Milky Way was gone?

Vidéos

• John Richard Bond explains the purpose of astronomy is .
• Jean-René Roy talks about the Gemini telescopes.
• John Barrie Hutchings talks about FUSE.
• Jaymie Mark Matthews talks about MOST.
• René Doyon talks about the James Webb Space Telescope.
• Hubert Reeves explains the concept of science.
• Peter Gordon Martin talks about interstellar dust.
• Gilles Fontaine explains asteroseismology.
• John Richard Bond explains what it means to be a cosmologist .
• Stéphanie Coté talks about women in astronomy.
• Jaymie Mark Matthews talks about being an astronomer in Canada in 2005.
• Hubert Reeves talks about light.
• Gilles Fontaine explains the concept of light-years .
• Hubert Reeves talks about light pollution
• Hubert Reeves explains that the Universe has a history.
• Peter Gordon Martin explains the concept of aberration .
• Jaymie Mark Matthews talks about reflectors .
• John Barrie Hutchings talks about refractors .
• Marie-Maude de Denus-Baillargeon talks about optic filters .
• Anthony Moffat explains the electromagnetic spectrum .
• René Racine talks about adaptive optics.