Workshop Materials

Workshop Poster

Participant List (corrected 2021-10-21)

Observing Logsheets

Nickel Logsheet 2021-10-15 through 2021-10-17

Kast Logsheet 2021-10-16 through 2021-10-17

CAT Logsheet 2021-10-16 through 2021-10-17

Lecture Notes

Introduction to CCD Astronomy

Introduction to Near InfraRed Astronomy

Introduction to Adaptive Optics

Night Sky and Public Education Resources

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 are not 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+CCD Data, 2021-10-15
• Nickel+CCD Data, 2021-10-16
• Nickel+CCD Data, 2020-10-10 (to be used in case conditions prevent taking your own data with the Nickel Telescope).

Data Reduction Setup

Spectral Data Reduction Tutorial

Calibration Arc Spectra

• Shane+Kast Data, 2021-10-16
• Shane+Kast Data, 2018-10-13 (if you do not acquire your own data in 2021).

• CAT+Hamilton Spectrograph Data, 2021-10-16

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

Python Scripts:
fixbadCCDcols.py
overscanLickObsP3.py