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Astrometry course at University of Tokyo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2007

T. Fukushima*
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatory, 2-21-1, Ohsawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

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The astrometry course at Department of Astronomy, University of Tokyo, is reviewed as an example of educational efforts for top-class students, the possible candidates of professional astronomers, in Japan. The method of teaching is unique in the sense that it gives lectures by using incomplete text books both as MS Powerpoint slides posted at a web site, http://chiron.mtk.nao.ac.jp/~toshio/education.html, and as printed materials in the form of self-study notebooks. Also there are self-study notebooks on the related issues; the courses of relativistic astrometry, of rotational motions, of numerical astronomy, and of orbital motions, the last of which is under development.

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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2008