SCHOOL OF ASTRONOMY
Astronomy B1: General Astronomy: The fundamental principles and
methods of astronomy. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Assistant Professor van de Kamp.
Astronomy B2: Modern Astronomy: Astronomy B1 or Mathematics B1
prerequisite.—Newer methods in astronomy. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 sessionhours.)
Professor Mitchell.
Astronomy C1: Practical Astronomy: Astronomy B1 and Mathematics
B2 prerequisite.—Astronomical observations and their reduction, theory of errors,
application of statistical methods to astronomical problems. Hours to be arranged.
Assistant Professors Vyssotsky and van de Kamp.
Astronomy C2: Celestial Mechanics: Astronomy B1 and Mathematics B2
prerequisite.—Problems of two, three and n bodies, perturbations, determination
of a preliminary orbit. Hours to be arranged.
Assistant Professor Vyssotsky.
Astronomy D1: Advanced Practical Astronomy: Astronomy C1 prerequisite.—Determination
of the positions of fixed stars, use of transit instrument,
equatorials and measuring machines. Hours by appointment.
Professor Mitchell.
Astronomy D2: Advanced Celestial Mechanics: Astronomy C2 prerequisite.—Determination
of the position of an undisturbed body from known elements,
determination of the elements of an undisturbed orbit, perturbations. Hours by
appointment.
Professor Mitchell.
Astronomy D3: Astrophysics: Astronomy C1 prerequisite.—A discussion
of astronomical problems. 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.
The Leander McCormick 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 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.
The members of the Visiting Committee of the Leander McCormick Observatory
are:
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY.
THE RECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY.
MR. ROBERT HALL MCCORMICK.
MR. LEANDER MCCORMICK-GOODHART.
THE DIRECTOR OF THE HARVARD COLLEGE OBSERVATORY.
THE DIRECTOR OF THE LEANDER MCCORMICK OBSERVATORY.
For information in regard to the Vanderbilt Fellowships in astronomy, see
page 180.
