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* Telescopes continued from last week as needed | * Telescopes continued from last week as needed | ||
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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/] | * 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/] | ||
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== Week 6 (September 23) == | |||
* Clear weather tonight possible (Monday) and the coming weekend | |||
* Roundtable discussion about project ideas (bring your own) such as | |||
** Jupiter imaging (must be done soon) | |||
** Bright star photometry (examples are some TESS candidates and zeta Andromedae now) | |||
** Use of latest CMOS color sensors for photometry | |||
** Other TESS candidates (TESS is currently observing the northern sky) | |||
** Variable stars in the TESS public data | |||
** Comets [http://www.aerith.net/comet/weekly/current.html http://www.aerith.net/comet/weekly/current.html] | |||
** Supernovae [http://www.rochesterastronomy.org/supernova.html http://www.rochesterastronomy.org/supernova.html] | |||
** Anything in Orion (visible after midnight now) | |||
** Geosynchronous (GEO) satellites (where, when, optical variability) | |||
** Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites (wide field camera, untracked) | |||
** Other selected targets in either hemisphere, your choice | |||
To continue this week and next as time allows | |||
* [https://www.astro.louisville.edu/software/astroimagej/index.html AstroImageJ] | * [https://www.astro.louisville.edu/software/astroimagej/index.html AstroImageJ] | ||
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** Photometry | ** Photometry | ||
** Advanced concepts | ** Advanced concepts | ||
** 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/] | |||
** Examples: TESS data and followup with ground-based observations | |||
Revision as of 00:42, 23 September 2019
These notes are brief summaries and links for the in-class content for the Monday class meetings of the Fall Semester 2019.
Week 1 (August 19)
- Orientation to the class
- Purpose, activities, outcomes
- Visiting the observatory
- Remote observing
- Semester projects
- Facilities and research
- On-line with Mt. Kent live session
Week 2 (August 26)
- What we observe
- Position and celestial coordinates
- Flux and magnitude
- What we infer
- Distance
- Size
- Luminosity
- Composition
- Evolution
- Useful tools for access to data
Week 3 (September 2)
- Labor Day holiday
Week 4 (September 9)
- Telescopes
- Basic concepts of optical telescope design
- Light gathering function
- Focal plane scale
- Angular resolution and point spread function
- Detectors and filters
- Visit to the Planetarium
- Solar projection telescope
- Solar imaging in hydrogen alpha light
Week 5 (September 16)
- Telescopes continued from last week as needed
- Examples: Epsilon Lyrae (Double Double) see https://www.astro.louisville.edu/shared_skies/archive/select/stars/lyra/epsilon_lyrae/20060909/
Week 6 (September 23)
- Clear weather tonight possible (Monday) and the coming weekend
- Roundtable discussion about project ideas (bring your own) such as
- Jupiter imaging (must be done soon)
- Bright star photometry (examples are some TESS candidates and zeta Andromedae now)
- Use of latest CMOS color sensors for photometry
- Other TESS candidates (TESS is currently observing the northern sky)
- Variable stars in the TESS public data
- Comets http://www.aerith.net/comet/weekly/current.html
- Supernovae http://www.rochesterastronomy.org/supernova.html
- Anything in Orion (visible after midnight now)
- Geosynchronous (GEO) satellites (where, when, optical variability)
- Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites (wide field camera, untracked)
- Other selected targets in either hemisphere, your choice
To continue this week and next as time allows
- AstroImageJ
- Installation
- Use with simple images
- Photometry
- Advanced concepts
- Examples: Jupiter see https://www.astro.louisville.edu/shared_skies/archive/select/planets/jupiter/20140313/
- Examples: TESS data and followup with ground-based observations