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Required Text
Dale Ostlie & Bradley Carroll, An Introduction to Modern Stellar Astrophysics, Addison Wesley (1996), ISBN 0-201-59880-9. We will omit some chapters that are less relevant.

Astronomy Department Policies
See: Memo to Undergraduate Astronomy Students
Regarding Astronomy Courses.

Star Parties

The Department has observing sessions Wednesday evenings on the roof of RLM and Friday and Saturday at Painter Hall (http://outreach.as.utexas.edu/public). You can use the 9-inch yourself if you are checked out on it. McDonald Observatory in west Texas also has public programs (phone 471-5285).

About the Instructor
Professor Shields was born in Los Angeles, California and grew up in Nebraska and Kansas. He earned a B.S. in Physics from Stanford University in 1968 and a Ph.D. in Astronomy at Caltech in 1973. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard, he joined the UT faculty in 1974. He now holds the title of The Jane and Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor in Astronomy, and served as Chairman of the Department of Astronomy from 1990 to 1994. He has taught both graduate and undergraduate courses throughout his career at UT. His research interests include theoretical studies of ionized nebulae in galaxies and the nature of quasars. He has published numerous research papers and popular articles. Prof. Shields is currently serving as Chairman of the Undergraduate Studies Committee for the Department of Astronomy.

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25 August 2003
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