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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)
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