AutoStar CCD Photometry
A Step-By-Step Guide For Doing Serious Astronomy
Hopkins
Phoenix Observatory
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2-1. Meade AutoStar Suite Planetarium Screen -- Selecting DSI Imaging
2-2. AutoStar Envisage Screen -- Selecting Settings (Camera Not Connected or Inoperative)
2-3. Settings Window
2-4. Selecting "Take Darks"
2-5. Take Darks Window
2-6. Dark Frames Complete Window
2-7. Envisage Screen With CCD Camera Operating
2-8. Exposure Setting Window
2-9. Deep Sky Image Process Window
2-10. Save Process Window
2-11. Quality and Evaluation Count Window
2-12. Save Procedure Window
2-13. DSI1 Folder Tab
2-14. Tracking Star Selection Box
2-15. Stats Area ñ (May Be Ignored for Photometry)
2-16. Long Exp and Live Selections. (Note Dark Sub is Checked)
2-17. Start Button
2-18. Sample I Filter Sky Flat
3-1. Selecting a New Group of Images
3-2. Selecting Filter Files to Calibrate with Flat Field
3-3. Calibrate Selection
3-4. Calibrate Window
3-5. New Calibrated Image Files
3-6. Photometry Cursor
3-7. Select Set Reference Magnitude
3-8. Set Reference Magnitude Window
3-9 . Select Determine Magnitude
3-10. Magnitude Determination Window
4-1. FileMaker Pro Data Summation Program
4-2. Database List of Data Records
A-1. Modified DSI Pro CCD Camera and Filter Turret on Meade 12 inch (30.5 cm) LX200 GPS Telescope at HPO
A-2. DSI Pro Camera with Filter Slide (left) and Low-Profile and Original Nosepiece Adapters (Right)
A-3. Disassembled ATIK Filter Wheel
A-4. Filter Wheel Disk with BVRI Photometric Filters
A-5. Standard UBVRI Johnson-Cousins Photometry Filter Passbands
A-6. Views Inside the DSI Pro with Cold Finger (White Square) and Nylon Mounting Screws Shown
A-7. Modified DSI Pro with Focal Reducer, Filter Wheel, TEC/HeatSink/Fan Assembly and Foam Insulation
A-8. Mechanical Modification Drawing and Electrical Schematic
B-1. Illustration of a Star's Air Mass (Accounting for Curvature of the Earthís Atmosphere).
B-2. Illustration of a Star's Declination.
B-3. Illustration of Star's Hour Angle for Northern Hemisphere Observers Facing The Southern Horizon
B-4. HPO FileMaker Pro Program for Calculating Air Mass
C-1. M67 Open Cluster Photograph
C-2. M67 CCD Image Taken at HPO
C-3. M67 Finder Chart for Star Identifications
D-1. Plot of i versus X
D-2. Plot of r versus X.
D-3. Plot of v versus X
D-4. Plot of b versus X
E-1 Example FileMaker Pro Observational Data Calculations
E-2. Example FileMaker Pro Transformation Coefficient Calculation
E-3. ((V - I) - (v - i)o) versus (V - I) Plot
E-4. ((V - R) - (v - r)o) versus (V - R) Plot
E-5. ((R - I) - (r - i)o) versus (R - I) Plot
E-6. (V - vo) versus (B - V) Plot
E-7. ((B - V) - (b - v)o) versus (B - V) Plot
F-1. Manual Data Plot
G-1. Image Information
G-2. FITS Header
H-1. Interior Construction of HPO Light Box
H-2. Outside of Plywood Bulkhead with Aperture
H-3. Inside of Plywood Bulkhead
H-4. Typical Light Box Flat Field (V Filter)
H-5. Typical Twilight Sky Flat
Present Page Version as of 27 April 2007
