280180 PR Advanced Lab Training for Observers (2006W)

The introduction to digital image processing in astronomy using the software packages IRAF and MIDAS consists of 3 parts: the determination of the characteristic parameters of a CCD using calibration data, aperture photometry of members of a globular cluster on CCD frames to procude a colour-magnitude diagram and the acquisition, calibration and subsequent line analyis of a solar spectrum, Photometry of variable stars using a time series of CCD-frames: calibration, aperture photometry, deriving a light curve and classification of the variable.