SUBJECT
Title
Summer internship
Type of instruction
practical
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
4
Recommended in
Semester 2
Typically offered in
Spring semester
Course description
The aim of the summer internship is to provide hands-on pracice for the students in the ield of observaions. The studenst will use the instruments located at Piszkéstető, Baja or in Szombathely. During the internship students will acquire the following capacity:
- Idenify the most prominent features of the night sky
- Use the instruments and make measurements with them
- Data reducion of the raw data: The images are irst processed for bias and dark subtracion; lat-ield correcion
- With the reduced data, analysis may inally be performed
Readings
- Kartunen et al.: Fundamental Astronomy. 5Th ed., Springer, 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-34143-7
- Freedman and Kaufmann: Universe. 8th ed., W. H. Freeman Publ., 2007, ISBN: 978-0716785842
- Bradley et al.: Introducion to Modern Astrophysics. 2Nd ed., Benjamin Cummings Publ., 2006, ISBN 978-0805304022