Bill Romanishin's CCD Introductory Text
Bill Romanishin, University of
Oklahoma
The book is available as a .PDF file. You are welcome to download and look at or print
out the file. The file is available by clicking here and following the link on the
page.
The file is about 2MB in size (much of that in figures). You can download a free copy
of the latest Adobe PDF reader at www.adobe.com.
From Bill's page:
Each spring semester, I teach a junior/senior level course for
astrophysics and astronomy majors, ASTR 4512, titled "Observatory Methods". This
course covers basic material about telescopes and detectors for optical astronomy, with
most of the course devoted to learning about CCD detectors and learning how to use these
wonderful devices to make broadband (BVR) optical photometric measurements of astronomical
sources.
When I first started to teach this course in 1995, I did not find a
book at the appropriate level that covered the material I wished to cover. So, in a fit of
insanity, I started to write my own textbook. I have decided to make this book freely
available to anyone who wishes to use it, at least at this time. Sometime in the future I
may decide to formally publish the book, but that sounds like too much work! (Also, there
are now several books available that are somewhat similar to what I have written.)
