In this experiment setup for optical astronomy, we use high resolution telescope, digital photometer and charge-coupled devices (CCDs). Main observations are in the range of 400nm to 700 nm wavelength. The same equipment can as well be used to observe near-ultraviolet and nearinfrared radiation.
More To estimate the temperature of an artificial star by photometry
Characteristics study of a CCD camera
To study the solar limb darkening effect
Polar alignment of an astronomical telescope
To estimate the relative magnitude of a group of stars
To study the atmospheric extinction for different colors
To study the effective temperature of stars by B-V photometry
To estimate the night sky brightness with a photometer
To estimate the distance to the moon by parallax method
To estimate the distance to a Cepheid variable
To study the variability of delta Scuti type stars
To study the variability of RS CVn binaries
Polarization of day/moon light Rayleigh scattering