Astronomical Imaging For The Upperclass Physics Curriculum

该项目在葛底斯堡学院天文台的16英寸计算机控制望远镜上使用了高质量、大画幅的CCD相机。该相机与相关的图像处理工作站一起，用于向我们的高年级物理专业的学生介绍涉及现代天文观测和分析技术的练习和研究项目。在初级高级实验室课程中，它允许用短周期星团变星的CCD测光练习取代现有的使用光电光度计进行口径测光的练习。做必修高级课题的高三物理学生，以及其他对天文学感兴趣的专业，可以参与小行星视差测量、超新星光度测量等研究项目，并可以接受天文图像数字分析方面的培训。小行星和超新星项目不仅影响到我们葛底斯堡的学生，还涉及到与其他机构的学生和教职员工协调观测和共享数据。

The project uses a high-quality, large-format CCD camera on the 16-inch computer-controlled telescope at Gettysburg College Observatory. The camera, with an associated image-processing workstation, is used to introduce exercises and research projects involving modern astronomical observing and analysis techniques to our upperclass physics majors. In the junior- level advanced laboratory course, it allows the replacement of an existing exercise on aperture photometry using a photoelectric photometer with an exercise on CCD photometry of short-period variable stars in clusters. Senior physics students doing a required senior project, as well as other majors interested in astronomy, can participate in research projects such as the measurement of asteroid parallaxes and the photometry of supernovae, and can be trained in the digital analysis of astronomical images. The asteroid and supernova projects not only affect our Gettysburg students, but involve coordination of observations and sharing of data with students and faculty at other institutions.