University of Namibia Telescope Tutorial

Tutorials for the small telescope at the University of Namibia

Outline of Course

1. Observing the night sky and finding stars
2. Using the telescope to observe objects
3. Recording Observations with the SBIG camera
4. Measuring the HR diagram for an open cluster

Requirements that need to be installed for the course

• ipython
• numpy
• scipy
• astropy
• ccdproc
• photutil

Many of these packages can be installed via the anaconda scientific package.