Astronomical Laboratory - ASTR:4850 - Fall 2015

When:	Mondays 6:30-9:15 pm
Where:	655 VAN
What:	Syllabus Laboratories/Homework Research Projects
Who:	Prof. Kaaret 702 Van Allen Hall 319-335-1985 philip-kaaret@uiowa.edu Office hours: Tuesday 10-11:30 am and Wednesday 2:30-4:00 pm or by appointment. It's best to e-mail in advance. Patrick Wilcox 602 Van Allen Hall patrick-wilcox@uiowa.edu

Observatory information:
Twitter: @VA_Observatory
Facebook: facebook.com/VanAllenObservatories

News:

Links:
Handbook of CCD Astronomy via UI Libraries
Santa Barbara Instruments Group ST-402ME CCD camera
SBIG CCDOps manual
Kodak KAF-0402E/ME CCD
SBIG DSS-7 Spectrograph manual

Software:
SBIG software:
- need CCDOps and DriverChecker64
- https://www.sbig.com/support/software/
Python:
- we will be using python 2.7 with numpy, matplotlib, and ipython
- everything needed is included in Anaconda python http://continuum.io/downloads
- or each can be download and installed individually
- http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7.8/
- https://pypi.python.org/pypi/numpy
- https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/downloads
- https://github.com/ipython/ipython/downloads
- PyFITS http://www.stsci.edu/institute/software_hardware/pyfits/Download

SAOImage DS9
- http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/ds9/site/Download.html
- DS9 Tips and Tricks: http://casa.colorado.edu/~ginsbura/ds9tips.htm#body8

Python resources:
Interactive, online tutorial: http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/python
NumPy tutorial: http://www.scipy.org/Tentative_NumPy_Tutorial

Matplotlib site with many examples: http://matplotlib.org