Photometry (concept)
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Jump to navigationJump to searchPhotometry is the quantitative measure of brightness of an object in an astronomical images
Most coherent, developed, tested materials
Somewhat less coherent (or less standalone) materials
Other sources of interest
- Your local astronomy textbook or (if neccessary) the Wikipedia entry for photometry is probably a good place to go for a longer general introduction.
- The IRAF manuals are old but still very, very valid. If you can pay attention to the concepts and ignore the IRAF-specific instructions, you can learn an awful lot from these manuals. Oldies but goodies.
- https://www.aavso.org/
- http://gtn.sonoma.edu/members/basic.php
- http://lcogt.net/en/book/introduction-photometry
- http://www.minorplanet.info/ObsGuides/Misc/photometryguide.htm
