Advanced CCD Observing Techniques (Abstract)

Volume 38 number 2 (2010)

Arne A. Henden

Abstract

(Abstract only) After you have learned the basics of using your CCD camera, you still need to learn the techniques necessary for quality photometry. This paper covers the basic essentials: choosing the correct aperture size, improving the precision of your measures, learning about signal/noise, defects like saturation, clouds and scintillation, beginning differential photometry, paying attention to the time of an observation, and transformation. Practical examples are given throughout.