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How to Understand Star Photometry: How it Works
March 5, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST
Free
Instructor: Richard Berry. Berry is well experienced in stellar photometry and was a programmer for the science-oriented software Astronomical Image Processing for Windows (AIP4Win).
Photometry seems like magic: you click on a star image and a magnitude pops up! But a lot happens between the moment you "click" and the moment that magnitude pops up on the computer screen. Berry will explore with you-- in non-technical terms -- what the computer has to do to turn your pixels into meaningful information. This talk will complement Bob Buchheim's "Introduction to Photometry" 2021 webinar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcE7c4CggFM). Berry will describe how to do photometry by presenting the inside picture of how photometry works and why it works so well. He will demonstrate using AIP4Win software (join [email protected] to download this freeware package), but all stellar photometry software works pretty much the same way.
