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The Nature Of The Stars

This is a fun course about the night sky. It is packed with things to do on cloudy nights.

This course is all about doing astronomy, rather than just reading about it.

And you can do the whole course from your armchair!

 There are ten lessons and each one contains approximately twenty pages of: 

	notes ~ fully explained
	information ~ clearly displayed
	diagrams ~ to aid understanding
	charts ~ to display information
	templates ~ ready to cut out
	star maps ~ detailed and useful
	and lots of fun exercises to do

The exercises may involve: measuring, cutting out, making paper models, counting stars, simple sums, drawing diagrams and putting together a star map. You will learn a lot from doing these simple exercises and you will find the maps and models become useful tools.

You will need to work through each lesson from the beginning, completing each exercise as you come to it, and writing your answers in the appropriate spaces in the lesson notes.

Included with each lesson is an Answer Sheet. When you have completed all the exercises in this lesson, transfer your answers to the Answer Sheet at the end of the lesson, and return the Answer Sheet to your tutor for assessment.

Your answers will be assessed and returned to you with your next lesson.

 On completion of the course each student will receive a
Nature of the Stars Practical Astronomy Certificate.

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