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Postgraduate course on instrumentation and observational astronomy.


This course was given at the Ioa, between 1999-2003 to 1st and 2nd year postgraduates.
  • Introduction and summary - how to make discoveries (lecture1.ps)
  • Telscopes and instruments - basic principles (lecture2.ps)
  • Optical and infra-red light detectors (lecture3.ps)
  • Ground-based observing and adaptive optics (lecture4.ps)
  • Space observatories - HST, UV and IR missions (lecture5.ps)
  • Sky surveys, wide-field astronomy and archives (lecture6.ps)
  • Prospects for 2003-2020 : extremely large telescopes, NGST, new space missions, interferometry (lecture7.ps)