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Astronomy with an online telescope
Astronomy with an online telescope

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Acknowledgements

This free course was written and produced by:

Authors and presenters; Jo Jarvis, Alan Cayless, Simon Clark, Stella Bradbury, Ulrich Kolb, Meredith Morrell, Colin Snodgrass.

Programmers; Geoff Austin, James Smith.

Contributers; thanks to Helen Fraser for advice and guidance

Contributers; Angela Lamont and Andrew Rix – filming and video production.

IAC/ODT; Miquel Serra-Ricart, Nayra Rodrigues-Eugenio, Rafael Rebolo.

With thanks to the staff and facilities of the IAC and ODT for their support and cooperation in the filming and production of this Badged Open Course.

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The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course:

Figures

Figure 1, 2, 4 and 10: © Alan Cayless

Figure 6: taken from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leavitt_aavso.jpg;

Figure 7: © NASA, ESA and Z.Levay (STScl); Science Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) and the American Association of Variable Star Observers

Figure 8: © NASA/CXC/M.Weiss

Figure 9: © David Anderson; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/

Figure 10: Telescope.org

Videos

Video 3: ESO; https://www.eso.org

Thanks also to:

NASA Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)

European Southern Observatory (ESO)

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