Teaching

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Below are some of the courses that I have taught or been a teachers assistant for over the years.

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AST325Y/326H : This is a senior course in the departments astrophysical specialist program.�It presented students with practical experience in using the tools of modern observational astronomy, including astronomical resources on the web and the IRAF data reduction package. I taught the necessary computer skills (unix, latex etc.) in the lab session, including the reduction of stellar spectra and photometric observations with IRAF.�

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Students have requested that I leave my “help” pages up...so here they are.

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HANDOUTS & HELP FILES

� Unix handout

� other unix stuff

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�IRAF handout

�IRAF tutorial instructions

� IRAF tutorial image one�

� IRAF tutorial image two

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CCD Theory and Data Pre-Processing handouts

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� Basic Photometry handout I

�Basic Photometry handout II

�Photometric Calibration handout

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Spectroscopy

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� Spectroscopic Reduction handout

LaTeX for Windows:

Learning LaTeX

� How to install LaTeX (MiKTeX) on Windows

� Installing MiKTeX

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Learning LaTeX:

� Sample Latex files

� A quick example (tex version)

� A quick example (pdf version)

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� You need to have the style file in the directory that you are working in for latex to compile correctly.

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� A style file for my example

� The style file for the AAS tex file (you need to download the latex file from there website)

� LaTeX Symbols

� More LaTex Symbols

� LaTeX Fonts

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� Wenguang Wang's LaTeX Introduction

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Plotting Packages:

� SuperMongo

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LINKS

Course Materials

W. Romanishin's Introduction to Astronomical Photometry Using CCDs

Resources for AST325 Observing

Toronto night sky spectrum and linelist

16" telescope: ACP2 web-server access

16" telescope: Spectrograph grating calibration

16" telescope: Comparison lamp spectra: line-lists etc.

Article Servers

astro-ph (preprints)

ADS (journal abstract service)

Databases

the CADC (data archives, some catalogs)

the ADC (catalogs and databases)

SKYVIEW (the 'virtual' observatory)

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SIMBAD (galactic object data)

Vizier Catalog Browser (catalogs and databases)

NED (extra-galactic object data)

the Digitized Sky Survey (optical, ~full-sky)

the 2MASS Project (near-IR survey)

the NVSS Project (radio survey)

the FIRST Project (radio survey)

I have also been a teaching assistant for 3 other courses which covered the most fundamental topics in astronomy, namely the origin of the universe, of the chemical elements, of stars and galaxies, and of life in the universe.