Overview
- Provides guidance to a vital component of any undergraduate astrophysics course
- Informs novices about the elementary operation and calibration of CCD instruments used in introductory courses
- Offers information to help students plan, execute, and analyze final projects
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics (ULNP)
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About the author
Dr. Mark Gallaway holds an undergraduate honors degree in Physical Science from the Open University and a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Hertfordshire, UK (one of the largest astrophysics research groups in the UK). He has taught observational astrophysics at the University of Hertfordshire’s Bayfordbury Observatory (the largest such observatory in the UK and one of the largest robotic observatories in Europe) for three years, continuing to do so after he became the Observatory Manager in 2011.
During his current tenure Dr. Gallaway has overseen both a large increase in student numbers and a refocusing of the observatory to one of the UK’s leading small telescope research facilities. He is currently the PI of the Bayfordbury Supernova Search program, the Bayfordbury SuperWasp CV (Cataclysmic Variable) Follow-up program and the Bayfordbury NEO (Near Earth Object) Search. Dr. Gallaway is also a lead member of the M-Dwarf transit survey.
He regularly appears onthe BBC and other UK national broadcasters both as an expert. Furthermore, Dr. Gallaway has consulted on a number of general science programs in including the BBC documentary “How Satellites Rule Our Lives” and the series “How dangerous is….?”
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: An Introduction to Observational Astrophysics
Authors: Mark Gallaway
Series Title: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23377-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-23377-2Published: 16 November 2015
Series ISSN: 2192-4791
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4805
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 204
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour
Topics: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices