Workshop Materials

Workshop Poster

Participant Group Assignments

Participant List

Lecture Notes

Introduction to CCD Astronomy (or with extended notes)

Introduction to Near InfraRed Astronomy

Introduction to Adaptive Optics

Night Sky and Public Education Resources

Lecture Videos:
Introduction to Observational Astronomy (2020-10-09)
Direct Imaging Data Reduction (2020-10-10)
Introduction to Near InfraRed Astronomy (2020-10-10)
Introduction to Adaptive Optics (2020-10-10)
Spectral Data Reduction (2020-10-11)
History (2020-10-11)

Observation Planning

Observing Planning Resources

• Summary of available telescopes and their instruments.
• Summary of available direct imaging cameras.
• Summary of available spectrometers.
• Lick Observatory Astronomical Calendars.
• Shane Telescope Pointing limits.
• Nickel Telescope Pointing Limits.
• CAT Telescope Pointing Limits.
• Kast Exposure Time Calculator.

Project Descriptions

Exposure Times and Limiting Magnitudes

Data Reduction

Direct Imaging Data Reduction

Workshop participants should download the Jupyter Notebook for Python 2 or 3 according to what version of python you have installed. If you aren't using Anaconda/Jupyter, you'll want to download the related PDF and/or html and/or text files. Everyone will want to download the associated images listed below as well and put them in the same directory as the Jupyter, html, and text files.

Python 3:
Jupyter Notebook
Data Reduction PDF
Data Reduction Text file
Data Reduction HTML file

Python 2:
Jupyter Notebook
Data Reduction PDF
Data Reduction Text file
Data Reduction HTML file

Images:
FolderStructure.png
DS9-BadColFix.png
DS9-FlatField.png
DS9-FlatFieldedData.png
DS9-BadColFix.png

Nickel Data 2020-10-10
Nickel Data tarball to be used in case conditions prevent taking your own data with the Nickel Telescope.

Spectroscopic Data Reduction

Spectral Data Reduction Tutorial

Calibration Arc Spectra

Kast Spectrograph Data tarball

The following aren't strictly necessary for the workshop, but are useful for Lick Observatory data reduction.

Python Scripts:
fixbadCCDcols.py
overscanLickObsP3.py