Dr. Shashi M. Kanbur

Office Hours: Mondays:9.30-10.30am, Tuesdays 10-11am, Thursdays 2-3pm or phone/email me to make an appointment
Office: 124A Snygg Hall
Phone : 412 2679
Email : emailaddress

Textbook: "Introductory Astronomy Exercises", second edition by Dale C. Ferguson Textbook: "Astronomy Methods", by Hale Bradt

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The syllabus is here Course Syllabus

COURSE ANNOUNCEMENTS

COURSE INFORMATION

• A100 link



• Coordinate quick start



• Telescope quick start



• Telescope set up



• Some intro stuff on telescopes is here.



• Lab1 is here



• Lecture 1 notes



• Lab 2 is here



• Lab 3 is here



• The first CLEA lab on Asteroid Astrometry is here.
• Lunar photography lab is here with a guide for the camera and an observing log here.
• The pictures you have taken so far in the course are here.
• The moon maps needed for this are here,and here and here. The lunar landing sites map is here. The craters list is here and the features list is here.
  
• Details about accessing the camera images are here.


• An introductory Unix lab is here. and here, and here, and here and here.
• An introduction to CCD's and magnitudes is here.
• An intro to Stellar Evolution is here.
• An intro to Optics lab is here.



• The speed of light lab is here.



• The Cepheid Period-Luminosity lab is here.



• A link to the paper on the PL relation is here.



• The advanced data reduction/photometry lab is here.



• Do the CLEA exercise on HR diagrams of Star Clusters.