Video Tutorials
The following links are video tutorials to help familiarize you with the Skynet andAfterglow web interfaces as well as the software that will be used in throughout the course of the lab.
Please email any comments/questions/difficulties to moorejp [AT] physics.unc.edu.
- Using Skynet:
- Input a job on Skynet via the web interface. [Video Link]
- Check Skynet for your completed data.
[Video Link]
- Monitor An Object [Video Link]
- Repeated Observations [Video Link]
- Input a job on Skynet via the web interface. [Video Link]
- Using Afterglow:
- Brightness/Contrast Adjustments [Video Link]
- Labeling using Markers and Saving [Video Link]
- Image Information [Video Link]
- Measuring Angles [Video Link]
- Finding Planets with the Digital Sky Survey (DSS)[Video Link]
- One Star Alignment [Video Link]
- Making A Movie [Video Link]
- Measuring Parallax
- Two Star Alignment [Video Link]
- Measuring the Parallax Shift [Video Link]
- Period Folding [Video Link]
- Batch Photometry [Video Link]
- Using Stellarium:
- Stellarium [Video Link]
- Matching moons [Video Link]
- How to add the flip buttons in Stellarium 0.10.2
- Using the Afterglow Plotting Tools
- Graphing Linear Data [Video Link]
- Graphing Linear Data [Video Link]
- Graphing Moon-Distance Data
[Video Link]
- Graphing Variable Data [Video Link]
- Spreadsheet
- Using a Spreadsheet [Video Link]
- Group Management
- Managing a group on Skynet [Video Link]