Time, coordinate systems, observability tools
Time systems
Solar time
Sidereal time
Calendars
Coordinate systems
Celestial coordinate systems (diagram)
Local coordinate systems
Finding positions of celestial objects
Orientations of objects in the sky
Observability
Tools
Exercises
Image display and graphical file-based display tools
Image display
Spatial resolution
Dynamic range: brightness and contrast
nonlinear scalings
color maps and pseudocolor
true color images
other display functions
Standalone display tools
Basic display operation
Exercises
Astronomical image processing packages: Introduction and IRAF basics
IRAF/DS9 basic operation
Exercises
Astronomical image processing packages: IDL (and XVISTA) basics
IDL
XVISTA
Exercises (same as done with IRAF)
Introduction to CCD images and basic CCD data reduction
CCD introduction and principles of operations
Basic calibration
Calibration data
Creating calibration frames: combining images
IRAF techniques
IDL techniques
Exercises
Stellar (aperture) photometry, extinction, and photometric zero points
Exercises
Spectroscopy introduction
Introduction to APO spectrographs
Basic spectroscopic calibration
Exercises
DIS
ARCES
Triplespec
Spectroscopy data reduction
Main steps
IRAF utilities
IDL utilities
CCD imaging
Jon Holtzman 2009-11-09