Lecture notes

• Introductory concepts
  • Coordinate systems
  • Time
  • Measuring light
  • Magnitudes
  • Optics and telescopes
  • Further reading
• CCDs
• Basic CCD reductions
  • Datasets
  • Bias and overscan
  • Measuring the gain and readout noise
  • Darks
  • Flats
  • Science images
  • Cosmic ray removal
• Photometry and CCD calibrations
  • Aperture photometry
  • Astrometric registration
  • Image reprojection
  • Further reading
• Catalogue data and SQL
  • What is a table?
  • Working with tabular data
  • Reading and converting FITS files
  • Working with time series
  • Relational database and SQL
  • Further reading
• Plotting and data visualisation
  • Types of plots
  • Colours and palettes
  • Displaying astronomical images
  • Plotting tabular data
  • Plotting a galaxy colour-magnitude diagram
• Spectrographs