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Special Practical Course I - NAST017
Title: Speciální praktikum I
Guaranteed by: Astronomical Institute of Charles University (32-AUUK)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2020
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Marek Wolf, CSc.
doc. RNDr. Petr Zasche, Ph.D.
Classification: Physics > Astronomy and Astrophysics
Annotation -
Last update: T_AUUK (26.03.2015)
Methods of observations and astrophysical data reduction: CCD photometry and astrometry. Description of the telescope and CCD camera, selection of targets. Light curves of variable star, eclipsing binary and minor planet. Deep sky objects (galaxy, star cluster, nebula). Calibration (darkframe, flatfield), aperture photometry. Data reduction, mid-eclipse time estimation, period determination. Tasks are processed via remote access to the 65-cm telescope in Ondrejov.
Course completion requirements -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Marek Wolf, CSc. (13.06.2019)

Conditions for awarding the course-unit credit:

active participation in photometric measurements using 65cm telescope at the Ondřejov Observatory (remotely)

and submitting a report according to the instructions of the supervisor.

Literature -
Last update: T_AUUK (26.03.2015)

Bradt: Astronomy Methods, Cambridge University Press, 2004

Cooper, W.A. & Walker, E.N.: Getting the measure of the stars, Adam Hilger, 1989

Good, Gerry A.: Observing variable stars, Springer, 2003

Lawrence, Andy: Astronomical Measurement, A Concise Guide, Springer, 2014

Scott Birney, Gonzalez, Oesper: Observational Astronomy, Cambridge University Press, 2006

Sterken, Manfroid: Astronomical Photometry - A Guide, ASSL 175, Kluwer 1992

Walker, Gordon: Astronomical Observations, An Optival Perspective, Cambridge University Press, 1989

Teaching methods - Czech
Last update: WOLF/MFF.CUNI.CZ (26.03.2008)

praktická měření na observatoři v Ondřejově

Syllabus -
Last update: T_AUUK (26.03.2015)

Methods of observations and astrophysical data reduction: CCD photometry and

astrometry.

Program and objectives:

1. Description of the 65-cm reflecting telescope and CCD camera G2 in Ondrejov

observatory, selection of suitablr targets according to weather conditions.

2. Light curves of variable star, eclipsing binary and minor planet.

3. Deep sky objects (galaxy, star cluster, nebula).

4. Calibration frames (darkframe, flatfield).

5. Data reduction, aperture photometry, mid-eclipse time estimation, period

determination.

Tasks are processed via remote access to the 65-cm telescope in Ondrejov.

 
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