- Introduction and guidance
- Introduction
- 1 Finding your way around the sky using Stellarium software
- 2 The apparent motion of objects in the night sky
- 3 Mapping the night sky
- 4 This week’s quiz
- 5 Summary of Week 1
- Introduction
- 1 Observing with the naked eye
- 2 Observing with optical instruments
- 3 Observing from the Earth
- 4 The COAST facility
- 5 This week’s quiz
- 6 Summary of Week 2
- Introduction
- 1 Brightness of the stars
- 2 Magnitude limits
- 3 Your limits
- 4 This week’s quiz
- 5 Summary of Week 3
- Introduction
- 1 Messier objects
- 2 Requesting your first image
- 3 Collecting your first image
- 4 This week’s quiz
- 5 Summary of Week 4
- Introduction
- 1 Continue observing with COAST
- 2 The Sun as an ordinary star
- 3 What powers the Sun and stars?
- 4 Comparing the Sun with other stars
- 5 This week’s quiz
- 6 Summary of Week 5
- Introduction
- 1 Refine and edit your COAST images
- 2 Classifying stars – the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
- 3 The masses of stars
- 4 The lifecycles of stars
- 5 This week’s quiz
- 6 Summary of Week 6
- Introduction
- 1 Stellar evolution after the main sequence
- 2 Variable stars
- 3 Collaboration in observing
- 4 Plan your own variable star observations using COAST
- 5 This week’s quiz
- 6 Summary of Week 7
- Introduction
- 1 Retrieving your images
- 2 Measuring the brightness of your variable star
- 3 Building the light curve
- 4 This week’s quiz
- 5 Summary of Week 8
- 6 Concluding thoughts
- References
- Acknowledgements
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