Observational Techniques Course


Peter McGregor (ext. 8033; upper level Woolley Building).


Course begins Monday February 28 2011.

Lecture times

Monday 14:00 am - 15:00 am
Wednesday 14:00 am - 15:00 am
Wednesday 15:30 am - 16:30 pm

Location

Duffield Lecture Room, MSO

Course Outline

0. Overview (PDF; PPT).
1. Introduction (PDF; PPT).
2. Observing Concepts (PDF; PPT).
3. Photometric Systems (PDF; PPT).
3T. Tutorial (PDF; PPT).
4. Measurement Errors (PDF; PPT).
5. Optics Introduction (PDF; PPT).
6. Telescope Optics (PDF; PPT).
7. Instrument Optics (PDF; PPT).
8. Imaging Systems (PDF; PPT).
9. Slit Spectrographs (PDF; PPT).
10. Integral-Field Spectrographs (PDF; PPT).
11. Other Spectrographs (PDF; PPT).
12. Infrared Instruments (PDF; PPT).
13. Detector systems (PDF; PPT).
14. Adaptive optics (PDF; PPT).

Others (FYI)

5. Software (PDF).
15. Advanced Adaptive optics (PDF).
17. Radio Observations (PDF).


Assessment for Honours Students

Assessment for Honours students will be based on three assignments.
These are described in the Introduction lecture above.
Assignments should be submitted by TBD.


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