How Astronomy Works

Contents

• NSO guides to doing Astronomy . . .
  • Is there a simple guide to Getting Started?
  • How do astronomers measure distances?
  • Why are angles so important in astronomy?
• How do you become an Astronomer?
• Working with the robotic Liverpool Telescope (LT)
  • How do we communicate with the LT
  • See how we control the LT, using the LTRobot simulator
  • Find out how to analyse LT observations using LTImage
• Useful things to know . . .
  • What is a light year?
  • What on earth is latitude and longitude?