PRELIMINARY LEVEL
Sky coordinates and motions:
Earth Rotation - Sky coordinates - seasons - phases of the Moon - the Moon's orbit and eclipses - timekeeping (sidereal vs synodic period). Gravity- Kepler's laws
Our Solar System:
The Sun- Formation- processes- Solar nebula- Fusion- Energy formation-structure of sun-sunspots- space weather
Planets- Characteristics, rotation, revolution, structure, satellites, notable features. Moon-tides- formation- apollo missions
Missions to explore solar systems – Space mission to sun, planets, Moon
Comets, meteors, trans neptunian objects, kuiper belt oort cloud
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL
Stars and Evolution:
Formation of stars- Nebular hypothesis -brown dwarfs- Jeans Mass- - blackbody spectrum - classification of stars - HR diagram- Nuclear fusion- element formation below Fe- fate of stars - Chandrasekhar limit- white dwarfs, redgiant, supernova-nucleosynthesis- we are star stuffs
Observatories
Historical Monuments- Around the world -jantar mantar-Machu Picchu-Castellio(mayan Temple)-stonehenge- (travancore observatory).
Telescopes-lenses- mirrors-electromagnetic spectrum- multiwavelength astronomy-major observatories-both ground based and space- HST-JWST- multi messenger astronomy
FINAL LEVEL
Human Space Exploration:
Human missions to space – timeline- Space stations- Salyut to International Space stations
Cosmology
Big Bang-CMBR-formation of first atoms-stars-, Galaxies-to present universe. Expansion of Universe-Hubble's law-redshift- Dark Energy- Dark Matter