Lessons
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Instrumental sensitivity
Calculation of how much
exposure time is needed for a given observation. |
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Calibration and reduction of images
Removing artifacts and imperfections, alignment, averaging,
and tesselation of images. |
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Deconvolution of images
How to make images a sharper than the seeing allows, and the
price one pays for doing so. |
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Basics of
observing Quick start for learning to operate
telescope and caemera |
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Spectral-line imaging
Challenges in the use of narrow-band spectral-line filters in
imaging. See also the H II region long form, below. |
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Crowded-field stellar photometry
How to decompose the image of a dense stellar cluster into
its component stellar images. |
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Observation of periodically-variable objects
Observing cadence, light curves, and periodograms. |
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Uncertainties in astronomical observations
How to propagate uncertainties through the calibration and
reduction process |
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Pretty
astronomical pictures
With 4 hours and a few tricks in Photoshop, one can make
extremely respectable pictures at Mees. With 40-80 hours, APOD
quality. |
Other resources
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Astronomy
203
Lectures 18 (first three sections) and 19-24 pertain to
lesson 1. |
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H II regions: the long form
Elaboration on the short form
presented in the lesson on spectral-line imaging.
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