Open Univeristy Astronomy Courses

Here is a free book online with all the necessary principles of
spacetime to help you on your way -

'Scientific people know very well that Time is only a kind of Space.'

http://www.bartleby.com/1000/1.html

A new course is to be added next year regarding how 20th century
theorists ruined a perfectly good 1898 science fiction novel.

"Interstellar OverDrive" wrote in message
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I'm embarking on an OU Astronomy course in January and wondered if anyone
here had any experience of this ?

That aside, check out the details of this course

http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?C01SXR208

A week in Mallorca, based at this observatory - cool !

http://www.oam.es/

Hi,

I just completed S197 and S194 - both very interesting and a good lead in to
the higher level courses. Just got my results too :-)

I am planning on doing SXR208 next year - to go with the Level 2 Astronomy
course that I can't remember the number of right now.

All in all, the OU courses seem rather good - you do need to make sure that
you allocate enough time to study properly as opposed to rushing things at
the last minute though....

I just completed S197 and S194 - both very interesting and a good lead in to
the higher level courses. Just got my results too :-)

I am planning on doing SXR208 next year - to go with the Level 2 Astronomy
course that I can't remember the number of right now.

Thanks for this, with all the help on here I should be able to plan my
study for the next year or two !

I just completed S197 and S194 - both very interesting and a good lead in to
the higher level courses. Just got my results too :-)

Did you take them sequentially or concurrently ?

PS I have no problem with free time, can usually spare 2 hours a day on
this.

"Interstellar OverDrive" wrote in message
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I just completed S197 and S194 - both very interesting and a good lead in
to the higher level courses. Just got my results too :-)

Did you take them sequentially or concurrently ?

Both at the same time. I'm also currently doing the S151 Maths for Science
course to sharpen up my long dormant A-level maths. That was the reason for
the comment about making sure not to leave it 'til the last minute !


PS I have no problem with free time, can usually spare 2 hours a day on
this.

I wish I had a bit more time these days....

Both at the same time. I'm also currently doing the S151 Maths for Science
course to sharpen up my long dormant A-level maths. That was the reason for
the comment about making sure not to leave it 'til the last minute !

I'll do one to start with to get an idea of the general difficulty of
the courses.


I wish I had a bit more time these days....

When your wife runs off with her boss and leaves you with a 1 year old
and a 2 year old you have plenty of time to fill in the evenings after
they have gone to bed...got to do something to occupy my mind you see !

Interstellar OverDrive wrote:
I'm embarking on an OU Astronomy course in January and wondered if
anyone here had any experience of this ?

That aside, check out the details of this course

http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?C01SXR208

A week in Mallorca, based at this observatory - cool !

http://www.oam.es/

I'm glad that somebody else brought up SXR208 in here...normally that is
left up to me :-)

I've just found out that I'm tutoring in the first week of this course
in March 2006, so I might see some of you there (say hello).

John
http://physics.open.ac.uk/~jdtanner

"Interstellar OverDrive" wrote in message
...
Both at the same time. I'm also currently doing the S151 Maths for
Science course to sharpen up my long dormant A-level maths. That was the
reason for the comment about making sure not to leave it 'til the last
minute !

I'll do one to start with to get an idea of the general difficulty of the
courses.


I wish I had a bit more time these days....

When your wife runs off with her boss and leaves you with a 1 year old and
a 2 year old you have plenty of time to fill in the evenings after they
have gone to bed...got to do something to occupy my mind you see !

Fair enough !

They're interesting courses - enjoy.