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FIRST-PROJECT IMAGES!<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

NGC 7331<\/a> Adly Templeton, Connor Marti and Marcus Hughes<\/p>\n

NGC 6946<\/a> Johnny Inoue, Brendan Rosseau and Ross Yu<\/p>\n

NGC 6992<\/a> Declan Daly, Christian Lockwood and Cielo Perez<\/p>\n

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ASSIGNMENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

Assignments<\/b><\/h2>\n

Tutorial week 1 assignment:\u00a0Light and Magnitudes<\/a>
\nTutorial week 2 assignment: Celestial Sphere<\/a>
\nTutorial week 3 assignment: Signals and Statistics<\/a>
\nTutorial week 4 assignment: CCDs<\/a>
\nTutorial week 5 assignment: Photometry<\/a>
\nTutorial week 6 assignment: Spectroscopy<\/a>
\nTutorial week 7 assignment: Telescopes and Optics<\/a>
\nTutorial week 8 assignment: Extinction and AO<\/a>
\nTutorial week 9 assignment: Non-optical Astronomy<\/a><\/p>\n

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Announcements<\/strong><\/h2>\n

CCD lab<\/b><\/span> is rescheduled to Monday, Oct. 23; the second observing project will be assigned at that time. First observing project presentations will be held during lab time on Monday, October 30.<\/p>\n

CLASS LINKS AND APPLETS<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

Here is a selection of some useful links. Do not limit yourself to these – by now you know how to search for things on the web, and how to determine if a source is trustworthy (hint: sites ending in .edu are likely to be reliable). Also useful: Astronomy 111 links page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

CLASS RESOURCES<\/span><\/b>
\nHow to Write an Observing Proposal<\/a><\/p>\n

Excellent reference websites for many aspects of this course!<\/span><\/b>
\nSteve Majewski’s observing course page<\/a> — clear explanations of error analysis, CCDs, photometry and more…
\nCase Western Reserve course<\/a>; scroll down for topics<\/p>\n

Online Resource Links<\/span><\/b>
\nNASA ADS search page<\/a>
\nNASA Skyview<\/a>
\nCDS<\/a> – the main entry point for the Strasbourg Astronomical Data Centre
\nSimbad Astronomical Database<\/a>
\nVizieR Catalog Service<\/a>
\nVizieR tutorial<\/a>
\nNED Extragalactic Database<\/a>
\nESO Archive<\/a>
\nDigitized Sky Survey<\/a>
\n<\/a>Variable Star Nomenclature<\/a>
\n<\/a>Los Alamos Preprints (astro-ph)<\/a>
\n<\/a>2MASS Image Gallery<\/a>
\n<\/a>MAST Archive Searcher<\/a>
\nMAST Tutorial videos<\/a>
\nHubble Legacy Archive<\/a>
\nIRAF tutorial<\/a><\/p>\n

Observing, Spherical Trig, Time and the Sky<\/span><\/b>
\nEXCELLENT page for general observing concepts<\/a> READ THIS!
\nU. Nebraska’s GREAT applets<\/a>
\nFinding Charts using Eric Jensen’s TAPIR<\/a>
\nAirmass plots using Eric Jensen TAPIR<\/a>
\nCelestial Coordinates<\/a>
\nHorizon Coordinates<\/a>
\nSidereal Time, Right Ascension and Hour Angle<\/a>
\nSeasons and the Zodiac<\/a>
\nPaths of the Sun<\/a>
\nRotating Sky Explorer<\/a>
\nGalactic Coordinate System<\/a>
\nThe Constellations and their Stars<\/a>
\nNick Strobel’s Naked-Eye Astronomy notes<\/a>
\nA Compendium of Atmospheric Optics Effects<\/a>
\nWorld Time Zones <\/a>
\nSidereal Time Applet<\/a>
\nSolar vs. sidereal day<\/a>
\nStar Trail video\u00a0<\/a>
\nWilliamstown in Google maps<\/a>
\nSpherical triangle applet<\/a>
\nSpherical trig sine and cosine formulae<\/a>
\nApparent nightly motion of a star<\/a>
\nPrecession demo<\/a>
\nSunrise, Sunset, Solar Noon and Position from Anywhere on Earth<\/a>
\nAnimation of Solar Motions and Analemma<\/a><\/p>\n

Photometry Links<\/span><\/b>
\nMagnitude\/Filter Systems<\/a>
\nMore on Magnitude\/Filter Systems<\/a>
\nPhotometry Concepts<\/a>
\nImageJ documentation<\/a>
\nInterstellar Extinction information<\/a>
\n AAVSO photometry pages<\/a>
\nanother page about ImageJ photometry<\/a>
\nCCD Photometry<\/a> (from AAVSO)
\nPhotometry website<\/a>
\nMaximDL photometry tutorial<\/a><\/p>\n

CCD Links<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

CCD lecture ppts part 1<\/a> part 2<\/a><\/div>\n

Greg Bothun’s (irreverent) CCD page<\/a>
\nAliasing and Nyquist’s Theorem<\/a>
\nHandout from U. Florida with good explanation of CCD processing<\/a>
\nMOS capacitor<\/a>
\nCCD architecture and readout<\/a>
\nQE and Thinning<\/a>
\nClocking and charge transfer<\/a>
\nJava Simulation of CCD fabrication<\/a>
\nDescription of noise sources in a CCD<\/a><\/p>\n

Spectroscopy Links<\/span><\/b>
\n Spectroscopy website<\/a>
\nClassic prism spectrograph<\/a>
\nGratings and Prisms<\/a>
\nSpectroscopy download from Indiana U: www.astro.indiana.edu\/classweb\/a540\/notes\/002_10Jan_ch03.ppt
\nThe Planetary Nebula Spectrograph<\/a> from Helen Merrett’s thesis (2006)
\nMore on the Planetary Nebula Spectrograph<\/a>
\nIntegral Field Spectroscopy<\/a>
\nFraunhofer diffraction<\/a>
\nThe Grating Equation<\/a>
\nBlazed gratings<\/a>
\nBlaze Angle<\/a>
\nOverlapping orders <\/a>
\nGrating applet<\/a>
\nDouble-slit Interference<\/a> (Young’s Experiment)
\nSingle-Slit Diffraction<\/a><\/p>\n

UNIX Resources<\/span><\/b>
\nUC Berkeley<\/a>
\nU. Washington<\/a><\/p>\n

Light<\/span><\/b>
\nThe Doppler Effect<\/a>
\nPolarization demo<\/a>
\n Atmospheric Opacity<\/a> (from JPL)
\nElectromagnetic Spectrum<\/a>
\nDispersion<\/a>
\nReflection, Refraction, Diffraction<\/a>
\nTransverse and Longitudinal Waves<\/a>
\nSuperposition Principle<\/a>
\nA Compendium of Atmospheric Optics Effects<\/a>
\nBlackbodies<\/a>
\nThe Blackbody Game <\/a>
\nRadiation Laws & Color Indices<\/a>
\nKirchhoff’s Laws<\/a><\/p>\n

Stars<\/span><\/b>
\nStar Colors<\/a>
\nMagnitudes<\/a>
\nTransverse Velocity Derivation<\/a>
\nProper Motion & More…<\/a>
\nParallax applet<\/a>
\nNearby Stars<\/a><\/p>\n

Optics and Telescopes Links<\/span><\/b>
\nClair Max’s AO Website<\/a>
\nAO Before and After (<\/a> Sky and Telescope)
\nAustralia Telescope National Facility<\/a> on AO
\nWikipedia<\/a> on AO
\nThe Giant Magellan Telescope<\/a>
\nThe Thirty Meter Telescope<\/a>
\nPlate scale calculation<\/a>
\nChandra X-Ray Telescope applets<\/a><\/p>\n

Non-Optical Astronomy Links<\/span><\/b>
\nRadio Fundamentals<\/a>
\nHaystack tutorial<\/a>
\nNRAO web page<\/a>
\nALMA Observatory website<\/a>
\n SOFIA Telescope<\/a>
\nX-ray astronomy<\/a>
\nUV astronomy<\/a><\/p>\n

Probability and Statistics Links<\/span><\/b>
\nThe Gaussian Distribution<\/a>
\nSeveral good applets<\/a>
\nCentral Limit Theorem<\/a>
\nProbability distribution applets<\/a>
\nPascal’s Triangle<\/a>
\nMore Pascal’s Triangle<\/a>
\nBinomial applet<\/a>
\nPoisson applet<\/a><\/p>\n


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The Hubble Heritage Project.<\/a><\/b> This technicolor gallery
\nfeatures some of the most glorious images taken with HST, meticulously processed to bring out details and colors.
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