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- Classical Cosmology
- Classical Cosmology
- Distance Determination
- Introduction, Units, Trigonometric Parallax, Moving Cluster, Interlude, Magnitudes, Main Sequence Fitting, Baade-Wesselink, RR Lyr, Interlude, Cepheids, W Vir Stars, Light echos, PN Luminosity Function, Brightest Stars, Globular Cluster, Surface Brightness Fluctuations, Novae, Type Ia Supernovae, Tully-Fisher, Dn-Sigma, Brightest Cluster Galaxies
- Hubble Constant
- Path to H0, Velocity Field, H from HST