Video Tutorials
The following links are video tutorials to help familiarize you with the Skynet and Afterglow web interfaces as well as the software that will be used in throughout the course of the lab. Choose your resolution to view the video at underneath each description.
Please email any comments/questions to moorejp [AT] physics.unc.edu
- Shows how to input a job on Skynet via the web interface.
- Shows how to check Skynet for your completed photos.
- Shows how to use our Afterglow software to interface with Skynet
- Brightness/Contrast Adjustments
- Labeling using Markers and Saving
- Image Information
- Measuring Angles
- Aligning Images -- Coming Soon!
- Measuring Parallax
- [1024x768]
- [640x480]
- Making A Movie
- How to use the open source software package Stellarium for our lab purposes.
- Stellarium
- Matching moons
- How to add the flip buttons in Stellarium 0.10.2
(So you don't have to remember the keyboard shortcuts)
- The Digital Sky Survey -- Finding Planets
- Graphing Linear Results
- Graphing Moon-Distance Results
- Monitor An Object