Winter School 2005
Asiago (Italy) - February 7-11, 2005
General guidelines for the Lectures
Each lecture should last about 1.5 hours, divided in two parts, 45
minutes each, separated by a 10-15 minutes break.
We do not want to give introductions to astronomy basics and we will
assume they are well known by the attendands. We will try to concentrate
only on the aspects related to Supernovae.
Given the quite wide range of expertise level in the audience, the
lectures should be pretty didactical, with a style closer to a
university lecture than to a conference seminar. Nevertheless, the
tone should be kept rather friendly and not too academical.
The general idea is to provide the attendants with all the
knowledge required to write a proposal and properly reduce the
data. For this reason, real and practical cases should be shown and
described.
The length of the lectures should allow us to give a detailed
overview of the topics covered.
Given the length of the lecture, we should try as much as possible
to keep the thing interesting and stimulating.
The lectures should give to everybody the opportunity of asking
questions and to have personal discussion with the lecturers. For
this, the nights at the telescope can also be used.
Some practical exercises could also be proposed. For this purpose,
we will distribute a set of data to be reduced by everybody and then collect
the results (even after the school) and compare them. Lecturers can also
provide their own data set for the participants who want to verify
their understanding of the problems.
School Topics
For each of the topics to be covered by the lectures, here follows a
tentative list of items that we would like to be discussed:
1. B. Schmidt: Observations: methods, calibrations, problems and precautions
Telescopes, adapters and instruments
Object acquisition (slit centering)
Effects of Atmosphere (refraction, airmass, seeing, slit losses)
Parallactic angle, slit/slot and atmospheric dispersion correctors
