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Course:  Technical Science Introductory Science General Science

Go to The Solar Classroom and Complete the following sections
Image Filtering
What Filters Can Do 
     Yellow Landscape 
     Blue Landscape 
     Red Landscape 
     Landscape Discussion 
SKIP Constructing a Filter Wheel 
Viewing the Crab Nebula (YOU DON’T NEED TO DRAW THE SKETCHES)
     What Did You See? 
          The Yellow Filtered Crab
          The Blue Filtered Crab
          The Red Filtered Crab 
          Filters Discussion 

1.  What is the Crab Nebula?

2.  Why does the Crab Nebula look different with different filters?

3.  The Unfiltered image you see is made from a visible light telescope.  Does this contain all the information from the nebula?

Yes         No

Go to the Many Faces of the Sun and Complete the following sections
     White Light Sun
     Ca - K Sun
     Helium Sun
     Soft X-Ray Sun
Discussion of the Sun

4.       Look at your answer to question 3.  Has your answer changed?  Yes     No

If so, why has it changed?   

5.       Visible light images are the best way to gather information about the stars.  

Do you agree with this statement?  Yes     No         Explain your answer.

6.       Why do scientists use filters?

Go back to the home page of this site then click the Solar Tour section.  

7.  Explain one thing you learned in this section.