Physics 344
Observational
Optical Astronomy
Fall
Semester, 2009
The Moon observed in September 2009 with
the Schommer telescope and CCD system
Syllabus:
Click
here for a
copy of the course syllabus.
Current
Course News:
There
should now be sufficient disk space on JodrellBank
for all the Lab 6 data
Lab
6 due date is postponed to Dec. 3
New
stand-alone reduction programs are posted in the Lab 6 area on JodrellBank use these instead of the IDL codes previously
released.
Autoguiding now works here is
a guide
to using it.
Read
the supplement
for additional information on Lab 6.
Lab Assignment Status:
|
Lab |
Assigned |
Due |
Status |
|
9/03 |
9/10 |
returned |
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|
2 Visual Obs, Soln |
9/10 |
10/8 |
returned |
|
9/17 |
9/24 |
returned |
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|
9/24 |
10/8 |
returned |
|
|
10/8 |
10/29 |
returned |
|
|
6 CMD |
10/22 |
12/3 |
active |
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Observing Schedule:
|
Day |
Time* |
Student
1 |
Student
2 |
|
Monday |
7:00
9:00 |
C.
Jones |
K.
Wong |
|
|
9:00
11:00 |
A.
Jhaveri |
S.
Heiblim |
|
Tuesday |
7:00
9:00 |
R.
Patel |
J.
Mauriello |
|
|
9:00
11:00 |
S.
Tarabichi |
M.
Mederer |
|
Wednesday |
7:00
9:00 |
B.
Friedman |
C.
Hahn |
|
|
9:00
11:00 |
M.
Tsimaras |
C.
Eskow |
|
Friday |
7:00
9:00 |
S.
Galkin |
V.
Llamas |
|
|
9:00
11:00 |
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*Note: times
will shift earlier as the semester progresses
Manuals:
Click
here for a
copy of the users guide for the 0.5 m telescope.
Click
here
for a copy of the IDL tutorial.
Click
here for a copy
of the CCD users guide. (obsolete new one coming
soon)
Click
here for
a copy of the statistics introduction.
Predictions
for Observing:
Click
on http://cleardarksky.com/c/RSchmmrObNjkey.html for a page predicting observing conditions at
our observatory.