https://prancer.physics.louisville.edu/astrowiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=John&feedformat=atomAstroEdWiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T16:15:42ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.38.2https://prancer.physics.louisville.edu/astrowiki/index.php?title=Observational_Astronomy_(308)&diff=2606Observational Astronomy (308)2022-07-26T05:43:39Z<p>John: </p>
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<div>These notes are brief summaries and links for the in-class content for the Monday class meetings of the Fall Semester 2019. Class content is currently on our Moodle server. If you are enrolled in 308, please see your Blackboard class for links to the content for this term.<br />
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== Week 1 (August 19) ==<br />
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* [http://prancer.physics.louisville.edu/classes/syllabus/p308_fa19.pdf Orientation to the class]<br />
* Purpose, activities, outcomes<br />
* [https://www.astro.louisville.edu/moore/directions/ Visiting the observatory]<br />
* Remote observing<br />
* Semester projects<br />
* [https://www.astro.louisville.edu/presentations/ul_20190221.pdf Facilities and research] <br />
* On-line with Mt. Kent live session<br />
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== Week 2 (August 26) ==<br />
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* What we observe<br />
** Position and celestial coordinates<br />
** Flux and magnitude<br />
* What we infer<br />
** Distance<br />
** Size<br />
** Luminosity<br />
** Composition<br />
** Evolution<br />
* Useful tools for access to data<br />
** [https://stellarium.org/ Stellarium]<br />
** [http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/ Simbad]<br />
** [http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/aladin.gml Aladin]<br />
** [https://www.calsky.com/ Calsky]<br />
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== Week 3 (September 2) ==<br />
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* Labor Day holiday<br />
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== Week 4 (September 9) ==<br />
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* Telescopes<br />
** Basic concepts of optical telescope design<br />
** Light gathering function<br />
** Focal plane scale<br />
** Angular resolution and point spread function<br />
** Detectors and filters<br />
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* Visit to the Planetarium<br />
** Solar projection telescope<br />
** Solar imaging in hydrogen alpha light<br />
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== Week 5 (September 16) ==<br />
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* Telescopes continued from last week as needed<br />
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* Examples: Epsilon Lyrae (Double Double) see [https://www.astro.louisville.edu/shared_skies/archive/select/stars/lyra/epsilon_lyrae/20060909/ https://www.astro.louisville.edu/shared_skies/archive/select/stars/lyra/epsilon_lyrae/20060909/]<br />
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== Week 6 (September 23) ==<br />
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* Clear weather tonight possible (Monday) and the coming weekend<br />
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* Roundtable discussion about project ideas (bring your own) such as<br />
** Jupiter imaging (must be done soon)<br />
** Bright star photometry (examples are some TESS candidates and zeta Andromedae now)<br />
** Use of latest CMOS color sensors for photometry <br />
** Other TESS candidates (TESS is currently observing the northern sky)<br />
** Variable stars in the TESS public data<br />
** Comets [http://www.aerith.net/comet/weekly/current.html http://www.aerith.net/comet/weekly/current.html]<br />
** Supernovae [http://www.rochesterastronomy.org/supernova.html http://www.rochesterastronomy.org/supernova.html]<br />
** Anything in Orion (visible after midnight now) <br />
** Geosynchronous (GEO) satellites (where, when, optical variability)<br />
** Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites (wide field camera, untracked)<br />
** Near-Earth objects <br />
** Mercury transit on November 11 (with an exoplanet transit at night backup)<br />
** Other selected targets in either hemisphere, your choice<br />
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To continue this week and next as time allows<br />
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* [https://www.astro.louisville.edu/software/astroimagej/index.html AstroImageJ]<br />
** Installation<br />
** Use with simple images <br />
** Photometry<br />
** Advanced concepts<br />
** Examples: Jupiter see [https://www.astro.louisville.edu/shared_skies/archive/select/planets/jupiter/20140313/ https://www.astro.louisville.edu/shared_skies/archive/select/planets/jupiter/20140313/]<br />
** Examples: TESS data and followup with ground-based observations<br />
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== Week 7 (September 30) ==<br />
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* Continued discussion of research and optical astronomy data<br />
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== Week 8 (October 7) ==<br />
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* Fall break<br />
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== Week 9 (October 14) ==<br />
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* Final organization of research topics (revised 2019-10-21)<br />
** Natalie Warning - Geosynchronous satellites<br />
** Shawn Knabel, Dominic Smith, Travis Waters - TESS exoplanets<br />
** Michael Turner - TESS and expolanets<br />
** Christopher Anderson - Orion star formation<br />
** Benjamin Kantardzic- TESS and exoplanets<br />
** Dylan Scharff - Supernovae<br />
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* Exoplanet transit photometry of a TESS candidate<br />
** Full frame images<br />
** Candidates<br />
** Validation - night of October 13, 2019<br />
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== Week 10 (October 21) ==<br />
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* Research by topic<br />
** TESS and exoplanets<br />
*** Travis Waters, Shawn Knabel, Dominic Smith, Michael Turner, Ben Kantardzic<br />
** Supernovae<br />
*** Dylan Scharff<br />
** Orion star formation<br />
*** Chris Andersen<br />
** Geosynchronous satellites<br />
*** Natalie Warning<br />
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* This week at Moore Observatory<br />
** Tuesday night likely clear<br />
** Wednesday night long range partly cloudy<br />
** Sunday night long range favorable<br />
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* Noise in signals<br />
** Gaussian random processes, photons, and Poisson noise<br />
** Assessing sources of systematic error and noise in photometry<br />
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== Week 11 (October 28) ==<br />
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* Stellar spectra<br />
* Radial velocities<br />
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== Week 12 (November 4) ==<br />
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* Latest data on GEO satellites and TESS targets<br />
** See [https://www.calsky.com/]<br />
* Determining planetary mass from spectra<br />
** See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_spectroscopy Doppler Spectoscopy] in Wikipedia<br />
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== Week 13 (November 11) ==<br />
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* Transit of Mercury!!<br />
** Viewing in the planetarium garden area if it is clear<br />
** See [https://www.space.com/mercury-transit-2019-viewing-guide.html Viewing guide]<br />
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== Week 14 (November 18) ==<br />
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* Use of AstroImageJ to analyze data<br />
* Project data on our server at [https://www.astro.louisville.edu/shared_skies/archive/astrolab/ https://www.astro.louisville.edu/shared_skies/archive/astrolab/]<br />
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If time available --<br />
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* High spatial resolution imaging<br />
** Lucky imaging<br />
** Adaptive optics<br />
** Role in exoplanet discovery<br />
** Interferometry present and future<br />
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== Week 15 (November 25) ==<br />
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* Presentations of projects</div>Johnhttps://prancer.physics.louisville.edu/astrowiki/index.php?title=Elementary_Astronomy_Laboratory_Activities&diff=2605Elementary Astronomy Laboratory Activities2022-07-26T05:40:27Z<p>John: </p>
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<div>These activities for an Elementary Astronomy Lab are used in classes on campus at the University of Louisville and are being updated to match those made available to our mentored versions for labs that are offered [http://prancer.physics.louisville.edu/moodle online] as part of our Distance Education program. <br />
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If you are enrolled in Physics and Astronomy 108-50, the Distance Education online class, please see your class website [http://prancer.physics.louisville.edu/classes here]. If you are in a section usually taught on campus, check your Blackboard class page for instructions and recent content. <br />
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The lab versions below are for archival use and have not been updated for the current term.<br />
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[http://prancer.physics.louisville.edu/astrowiki/index.php/Identify_Constellations Identify Constellations ]<br />
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[http://prancer.physics.louisville.edu/astrowiki/index.php/Immersive_Video_Wall About the Video Room]<br />
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[http://prancer.physics.louisville.edu/astrowiki/index.php/Watch_the_Sky Watch the Sky (Planetarium session not currently offered)]<br />
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[http://prancer.physics.louisville.edu/astrowiki/index.php/Under_Namibian_Skies Under Namibian Skies (immersive visualization)]<br />
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[http://prancer.physics.louisville.edu/astrowiki/index.php/Night_Sky Night Sky Tonight Using Stellarium (immersive visualization)] <br />
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[http://prancer.physics.louisville.edu/astrowiki/index.php/Remote_Telescope_Requests Use a Remote Telescope: Requests] and<br />
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[http://prancer.physics.louisville.edu/astrowiki/index.php/Remote_Telescope_Results Analyze Request Results]<br />
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Travel to Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus (immersive visualization)<br />
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Survey galaxies in the universe (immersive visualization)<br />
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[http://prancer.physics.louisville.edu/astrowiki/index.php/Survey_Galaxies_in_Virgo Survey Galaxies in Virgo]<br />
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[http://prancer.physics.louisville.edu/astrowiki/index.php/The_Earth_Rotates The Earth Rotates]<br />
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[http://prancer.physics.louisville.edu/astrowiki/index.php/Our_Dynamic_Sun Our Dynamic Sun (may use the roof top solar telescope)]<br />
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[http://prancer.physics.louisville.edu/astrowiki/index.php/Light_and_Telescopes Light and Telescopes]<br />
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[http://prancer.physics.louisville.edu/astrowiki/index.php/Experiment_with_CCD_Camera_Images Experiment with CCD Camera Images]<br />
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[http://prancer.physics.louisville.edu/astrowiki/index.php/Use_a_CCD_Camera Use a CCD Camera]<br />
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[http://prancer.physics.louisville.edu/astrowiki/index.php/Spectra Spectra]<br />
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Observing planets and the Moon with a telescope (live remote or with the telescope on the roof)<br />
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[http://prancer.physics.louisville.edu/astrowiki/index.php/Explore_Mars Explore Mars] (may use immersive visualiztion)<br />
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[http://prancer.physics.louisville.edu/astrowiki/index.php/Observe_Satellites_of_Jupiter_and_Saturn Observe Satellites of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus]<br />
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[http://prancer.physics.louisville.edu/astrowiki/index.php/Follow_Proxima_Centauri Follow Proxima Centauri]<br />
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Brightnesses and colors of stars in Messier 34<br />
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[http://prancer.physics.louisville.edu/astrowiki/index.php/Variable_Stars_in_Messier_3 Variable Stars in Messier 3]<br />
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[http://prancer.physics.louisville.edu/astrowiki/index.php/Measure_a_Nearby_Supernova Measure a Nearby Supernova]<br />
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[http://prancer.physics.louisville.edu/astrowiki/index.php/Track_Cosmic_Rays_in_a_Cloud_Chamber Track Cosmic Rays in a Cloud Chamber]<br />
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== New Labs ==<br />
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[http://prancer.physics.louisville.edu/astrowiki/index.php/FLIR_Camera The iPad and infrared camera]<br />
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[http://prancer.physics.louisville.edu/astrowiki/index.php/Black_Body_and_Filters Stars as Black Bodies and Astronomical Filters]</div>John