DSLR Photometry Highlights
Presenter(s): Mark Blackford
Affiliation(s): VSS, ASNSW, AAVSO
Session details: Sunday, 2016-03-26 23:00:00, LT104
Abstract
A basic digital single lens reflex (DSLR) camera can provide research-quality photometry if appropriate care is taken when recording and analysing images. This talk will give a general background to the equipment and techniques employed by the author. This will be followed by descriptions of several research projects in which DSLR photometry has complemented professional spectroscopic studies.
Biography
Mark Blackford is an amateur astronomer currently living in Sydney. A visual observer since about 1970, he has in recent years been heavily involved in DSLR photometry with Variable Stars South and the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO). Mark was part of a team that wrote the original AAVSO DSLR Observing Manual and was solely responsible for revising and extending the manual to its current version. He has presented three online courses on DSLR Photometry for the AAVSO.