Brian Tung wrote:
William C. Keel wrote:
I finally got around to taking my 70 pages or so of course notes
about astronomical techniques and putting them up as a series of
PDF files at http://www.astr.ua.edu/keel/techniques/
This might seem more of a sci.astro.research thing (aside from
sci.astro becoming a complete morass), but these chapters includes
some things that do come up in s.a.a. :
- coordinate systems and matrix rotations
- reduction of photometric observations
- just how the heck does interferometry work?
- how does deconvolution work and when it is worth doing?
- what sets the limiting accuracy of even perfect detectors?

I also left in some historically interesting stuff about photographic
plates and visual observations. The set finishes up with pieces on
graphic and verbal presentation of results, and career advice which
departs strongly from my own path...

Cool! Mind if I refer to it now and then when I write my essays?

Well, that was part of the idea of putting them out there...
One of these days (like the next term it's my term to teach that
course) I may expand that and put all the math into HTML.

Bill Keel