Observing
- CC Astronomy Website
- CC Observing Resources
- WIRO Website
- The STScI Digitized Sky Survey
- Blank Observing Logs (PDF)
Computing
- CC Scientific Computing Lab Website
- Unix Tutorial
- Python & IRAF Installation Instructions
- Python Computational Toolbox
- IRAF Tutorial
- LaTeX Tutorial
- Instructions for installing setinstrument files for CC CCD
- Preprocessing instructions for WIRO data
Course Projects
- Image scale project (ZIP file)
- Imaging project (ZIP file)
- List of Messier Objects from Wikipedia
- Messier catalog from Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2nd Edition, Zombeck (1990)
- Extinction project (ZIP file)
- Suggested WIRO project links
Textbook Resources
- Textbook: A Practical Guide to Observational Astronomy by M. Shane Burns
- M51_R_p.fits ZIP file
- Bias Frame ZIP file
- Flat Frame ZIP file
- Star Field ZIP file