Astro Capstone, Spring 2022

This material can be found online at URL

http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/capstone/capstone.html

Meeting times this semester:

    Tues,  11 AM - noon    GOS-3010
    Wed,   noon  - 1 PM    CAR-2200

This webpage collects together a number of resources that we'll use throughout this capstone project.

• Calendar for scheduling observations Please let me know if you are unable to read it, or write to it.
• Zoom link for our regular meeting time.
• Shared documents
  • Observatory notes from Sep 8 as well as notes on data reduction
  • Google drive with raw images
  • List of nights at RIT Observatory
  • Scans of log sheets from some recent nights
• Discord for capstone
• Resources with stellar data
  • Aladin (charts)
  • SIMBAD (catalogs)
  • Data Release 7 from the Zwicky Transient Facility might provide a backup source of measurements; use the "Catalog Search" to pick a target.
  • AAVSO's explanation of (O-C) analysis
  • Stellar model data taken from the MIST project
  • Table and graphs showing combined light of pairs of stars of different masses, based on the MIST isochrones
• Software for analyzing images
  • AstroImageJ
• Relevant materials from some courses
  • Eclipsing binaries, part I (PHYS 370)
  • Eclipsing binaries, part II (PHYS 370)
  • Computing times of minimum and the (O-C) value
• Deadlines for the course
  • Practice talk session: Thu, Apr 14, 9:00 AM CAR-1155
  • Talks: Tues, Apr 19
  • Paper: Fri, Apr 22

• Raw images from Sep 08, 2021
• Examples of optical CCD analysis with AstroImageJ (day 1)
• Examples of optical CCD analysis with AstroImageJ (day 2)
• Very basic example of photometric calibration
• Phase coverage as of Nov 23, 2021
  • V1004 Cyg
  • V445 Cas
  • WZ Cyg

Notes from meetings this semester:

• Jan 18, 2022
• Jan 25, 2022
• Jan 26, 2022
• Feb 15, 2022
• Mar 01, 2022
• Nar 29, 2022
• Apr 5, 2022 (PDF)
• Apr 6, 2022

This page maintained by Michael Richmond.