Astr 222 January 26, 2005:  

Star Clusters and Stellar populations

Which cluster is most likely metal poor?

Globular Clusters

The Milky Way

Measuring Distances

Stellar pulsation

Cepheid Variables

Compress a star...

unusual conditions

Cepheid variables and the distance scale

Cepheid instability strip

period-luminosity charts

The Distance Ladder

Main sequence fitting

The Extragalactic distance scale