Documentation

This is the main page for the documentation we are generating.  The pages forked off from here will be working copies of the documents that get posted to the Citizen Sky website for more general use.

Software Packages:

The current software packages being considered and their statuses are:

The levels of documentation are (feel free to suggest better names for these levels):

• Beginner: Image by image processing to extract magnitudes
• Intermediate: Some form of batch processing resulting in averaged magnitudes and standard deviations.  We may assume the reader knows how to do everything in the beginner tutorial.
• Advanced: Batch processing, average magnitudes and uncertainties

Final Reduction Methods:

The levels of documentation here are a little nebulous, but for now we will consider them as follows:

• Beginner: Basic magnitude calibration including semi-automatic transformation coefficient determination.  This process will not include air mass correction and will therefore only be good for ~10 degree FOVs and Zenith angles less than 30 degrees.
• Intermediate: Above plus air mass correction.  We may assume the reader knows how to do everything in the beginner tutorial.
• Advanced: ?

Finder Charts, Standard Stars

Information on standard stars and finder charts have been moved to the main website.  These should not need to be modified any further as they are meant to correspond to these tutorials and therefore only need to reference the sample data we provide.