Contact Information
tatsuya.akiba@colorado.edu
Useful Documents and Links
Exam Review Documents
Observing
AAVSO Variable Star Plotter (particularly useful for finding your object)
SIMBAD (a mega database of objects)
Stellarium (a very useful astronomy software)
To check the weather
SBO Local Weather (for other weather links)
Date/Time Conversions
References
Measurements and their Uncertainties: A Practical Guide to Modern Error Analysis by Ifan G. Hughes, Thomas P. A. Hase (for uncertainty propagation and statistics in general)
In Your Free Time
Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)
Fermat’s Principle of Least Time (Wikipedia)
List of Telescope Types (Wikipedia)
How to Choose Your First Telescope
Binomial Distribution (Wikipedia)
