Index
Symbols
[OIII], 198
[SII], 198
2MASS, 70
2MASS catalogue, 71
A
AB photometric Standard, 15
Absolute magnitude, 13, 15
Absorption lines, 12, 197
AB system, 15
Accuracy, 161
Achromatic, 25
Adaptive optics, 177
Adobe’s photoshop, 135
ADU bit number, 77
Air mass, 110
Airy disc, 24
Aitken catalogue, 71
Aladdin, 104
All-Sky Photometry, 147
ALMA, 206
Alt Az, 29, 50, 55
Analogue to Digital converter (ADC), 97
Angular resolution, 24
Annulus, 146
Antennas, 207
Antumbar, 192
Aperture photometry, 146
Aperture Photometry Tool (APT), 2, 147
Aperture size, 24
Apochromatic, 25
Apogee, 47
Apparent magnitude, 15
Apparent solar time, 47
Array size, 76
Asterisms, 64
Astigmatism, 39
AstroImageJ, 2, 136, 147
Astrometry, 165, 217
Astrometry.net, 148
Astronomical unit, 4
Aurora, 188
B
B1950, 57
Baader, 189
Background, 146
Backlit CCD, 87
Bad pixels, 95
Bahtinov mask, 111
Baily’s beads, 194
Balmer lines, 12
Barlow, 35
Bayer catalogue, 66
Beam pattern, 207
Bell Burnell Jocelyn, 206
Bell Lab’s Horn, 205
Best practice, 4
Bias frame, 84, 88
Binaries, 146
Binning, 82
Black bodies, 13
Blooming, 98
Bonner Durchmusterung Catalogue, 68
Brahe Tycho, 47
Brightness, 13
Burnham catalogue, 71
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