Info
Course Code TAE450
Semester 8
Category Optional
Points 3
ECTS Units 6
Eclass
Lecturer
Recommended Reading

Each week students take one or more handouts which should read before next week’s lab. These will be distributed during the lab meetings; but they can also get them from the class web site

Course Description
  1. Spectral Continuum. Determination of Temperature and Radius of Stars.
  2. UBV System. Colour Indices.
  3. Spectral Types of Stars. H-R Diagram.
  4. Photometry of Pleiades. Distance and age of stellar clusters . (Project CLEA)
  5. Solar Flux, solar Rotation. (Project CLEA)
  6. Supernova remnants. Crab nebula
  7. Dying stars and the birth of elements. X ray Spectroscopy  of Cas A with XMM Newton . (Project CLEA)
  8. Estimation of the expansion of the Universe, the age and the distance of  nearby galaxies (Hubble constant)
  9. Image processing of astronomical images with MAXIM DL. Properties’ of a CCD camera. Tricolour imaging.
  10. Observations using telescopes at the University Observatory
  11. Observations using telescopes at the University Observatory
  12. Observations using telescopes at the University Observatory