Astronomical Spectroscopy: Doppler
Shift of a Kepler Target
Starts September 28, 2010
Due October 12, 2010
Lab 3 Instructions
Equipment:
The "Hamilton" spectrograph on the Lick Observatory 3m Shane
Telescope.
The
Hamilton
User's
Guide
The
Shane
Telescope
User's
Guide
Mt Hamilton webcams
Mt
Hamilton weather
Resources:
Introduction to CCD detectors by James Graham
(pdf)
CCD Noise handout by James Graham (pdf)
Night-sky light pollution at Lick
Observatory: a 1976 study (pdf)
Night-sky light pollution at Lick
Observatory: a 2003 study (pdf)
Useful Links:
NASA's Kepler mission
The California Planet Survey
The Exoplanet Transit Database
The Extrasolar Planet Encyclopaedia
