AST325H/326Y: PRACTICAL ASTRONOMY

Materials on line. Instructor: Stefan Mochnacki

  • Course Syllabus 2010/11

  • M34 observations taken by me (click here)

  • Data for Class Assignment 3 / Lab. Assignment 4

  • Scans of slides for Lecture of Mon. 10th Jan. 2011

    Useful old DDO pages

  • See weather here.

    TEACHING ASSISTANT'S NOTES

  • Bryce's notes, links and the assignments

    Manuals for Equipment

  • Spectrograph Manual for 16-inch telescope.
  • Spectrograph Brochure
  • SBIG ST-7/8 etc. Manual for 16-inch. (Note: We are using MaxIM/DL software rather than what SBIG provide).
  • Marc Castel's notes on preliminary calibration.
  • Details of FLI IMG1024S imaging camera.
  • FLI Camera users' guide.

    Spectroscopic Data and Tools

  • KPNO Spectral Atlas Central Th-Ar, Fe-Ar, He-Ne-Ar, Cu-Ar
  • Spectra of Gas Discharges 4000 - 7000 A.
  • Line Spectra of the Elements (Reader, Corliss 1980-1981) ADC Archive, 300 A to 3.5 microns.

    IRAF Page

  • IRAF is the Image Reduction and Analysis Facility.

    USEFUL LINKS

  • Lecture by Roger Griffin (2000)
  • Paper by Murdoch & Hearnshaw (1991) Nice review of errors, etc.
  • Paper by Furenlid & Furenlid Griffin mask in a computer.
  • Original paper by Tonry & Davis (1979)

    There are more useful Web sites at:

  • The Celestial Sphere (University of Indiana site)
  • View of the Moon
  • Maps of the solar system (interactive).
  • On-line planetarium (celestial sphere).
  • University of Oregon celestial sphere diagrams and simulations.

    RECOMMENDED READING

    See: Course Syllabus 2010/11 and the following:

    An Introduction to Astronomical Photometry Using CCDs by W. Romanishin (University of Oklahoma). The latest version can be downloaded from here .

    SLALIB -- A Positional Astronomy Library documentation download site. Version 2.4-8 (6 Sep. 2001) is available here in PostScript. The hypertext version is here .

    Astronomy Computer Manual (not very current).