Astronomy 481 Introduction to Astronomical Observation

Astro Raven

University of Washington
Astronomy Department

Astronomy 481 Introduction to Astronomical Observation
SUMMER 2004

Instructor: Dr. Ana M. Larson
Office: C335, Physics Astronomy Building Office hours: Just let me know
Questions? E-Mail: larson@astro.washington.edu

Class meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:00 - 5:40 pm, PAA A216

Syllabus

TAs: Oliver Fraser
Chris Laws
Andrew West

Discussion Board for further dialog Observing Schedule with Proposals and relevant review papers to critique Introduction to Linux: A Hands on Guide for HW #1. You want to look through Chapter 3. About files and the file system and the exercises at the end of the chapter.
Getting Started on B356 Computers in Linux

Reference Material

Helpful and/or relevant and/or interesting links:

"in-house" tutorial on Unix written by the expert: Chance Reschke
Redhat Linux Manuals
Introduction to Unix
IDL Astronomy User's Library
Astronomer's IDL Tutorial
Get Started in IDL Manual (PDF, 4 megs), not in tutorial form.
IDL home
GNU Fortran
The Numerical-Recipes book on-line
Super-Mongo Tutorial
Super-Mongo Manual

Introductory Text on Photometry (PDF)
Skyview: Images of the sky at a large variety of wavelengths.
Simbad: Extensive bibliographic database.
NED (NASA Extragalactic database): Bibliographic information, data, and images of extragalactic objects, as well as a nice coordinate calculator.
Vizier: On-line searching of thousands of astronomical catalogs.
ADS Abstract Service: Access to full articles from most major astronomical journals.

Compare Poisson and Gaussian distributions.

Other Cool Web Sites

The Spectroscopy Net