What is Time: JD
Julian Dates (JD) are a continuous count of days, and fractions of days, since noon Universal Time on January 1, 4713 BC (on the Julian calendar)
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Exoplanets
What is an Epoch
An epoch is a particular time period, point in history, or a moment defined by a particular event, and is a moment of time used as a reference point for a time-varying astronomical quantity.
Locating your star in an image – Variable Stars and Exoplanets
This tutorial covers how to identify your target stars and the cardinal points, so you can place North and East in your images using MiraPro.
Image Reduction – Overview
Image processing goes through pre-processing (calibrating images using darks, biases, and flat-fields) and post-processing (When images are digitally reduced: WCS Coordinates, removal of Cosmic Rays, Transformed, etc)
Visibility Curve For Your Target and How To Use It
When imaging your star, make sure your declination can be imaged by your observatory.
Airmass
Airmass is the path length for light from an astronomical object to pass through the Earth’s Atmosphere, and a greater airmass means dimmer targets
SIMBAD
SIMBAD can be accessed via CDS and Stelle Doppie. Using SIMBAD, stellar data and summaries and publication information can be accessed.
Online Catalogs Overview
This video goes over the online catalogs CDS Strausbourg, Stelle Doppie, SiMBAD, and VizieR
Landolt
The Landolt catalog has become the de facto standard for transforming to the UBVR CIC system, and place photometric observations on a common platform.
Standard Photometric Stars
Photometric-standard stars are stars that have had their light output in various passbands of photometric system measured very carefully. They provide a means to not only calibrate your photometric system, but give a common “yardstick” from which all measurements can be compared.