For Graduates.
Astronomy D1: Advanced Practical Astronomy: Astronomy C1 prerequisite.—Determination
of the positions of the fixed stars, use of transit
instrument, equatorials and measuring machines. Hours by appointment.
Professor Mitchell.
Astronomy D2: Theoria Motus: Astronomy B1 and Mathematics B2
(or its equivalent) prerequisite.—Determination of the position of an undisturbed
body from known elements, determination of the elements of an undisturbed
orbit, theory of special perturbations. Hours by appointment.
Professor Mitchell.
Astronomy D3: Advanced Celestial Mechanics: Astronomy C2 prerequisite.—Problem
of three bodies, and theory of general perturbations.
Hours by appointment. Professor Mitchell.
Astronomy D4: Photographic Astronomy: Astronomy C1 prerequisite.
—Theory and reduction of astronomical photographs, including spectrograms.
Hours by appointment. Professor Mitchell.
For information in regard to the Vanderbilt Fellowships in Astronomy,
see page 116. For summer-school courses in Astronomy on which college
credit will be allowed, see p. 256.
The Astronomical Observatory is situated upon Mount Jefferson, which
furnishes an unobstructed horizon. The principal building is a rotunda
forty-five feet in diameter, which contains the great Clark refractor of
twenty-six inches aperture. The instrument and building are the gift of the
late Leander J. McCormick, Esq., of Chicago. The telescope is fitted with
micrometer, photometer, and a plate-holder for stellar photography. The
computing rooms adjoining contain clocks, chronograph, machines for
measuring astronomical photographs and spectrograms, and an excellent
working library. In a smaller building are a three-inch transit and a six-inch
equatorial.
A temporary Students' Observatory, erected in the rear of Dawson's
Row, is intended primarily for the use of students in Astronomy B1.
