The course will last 12 days during the first two weeks of July, 2003.
It will focus on observing in practice, where the students themselves carry
out all the relevant steps in the process; planning, observing, reduction,
analysis and reporting.
A Preliminary Schedule
The duration of the course will be 12 days starting on July 1. The first
few days will be devoted to introductionary lectures and project planning.
Observations will then be obtained during the next 6 nights and days, and
the last days will be needed for reduction, analysis and presentation of
the projects.
The schedule will have to be flexible, to adjust to the the actual
weather situation.
The final write-up is expected to take place at the home-institutes.
Each group - with 3-4 students - will conduct a full-day observational
laboration at the solar telescope.
(preliminary plan:
9-12
14-17
19->
morning
afternoon
evening
1.
Course start
Lectures
Lectures + handouts of projects
Intro to telescopes
Instrumentation
2.
Test, project presentations
Sightseeing
Downtown dinner!
3.
Planning of observations (CD)
Planning (AD)
Solar observations group A
Solar Observations group B
Not Tour B
Not Tour C
4.
Planning of observations (AB)
Planning (BC)
Solar observations group C
Solar Observations group D
Not Tour D
Not Tour A
5.
Solar observations group B
Solar Observations group A
NOT prep CB
NOT observations CB (C late)
6.
Solar observations group D
Solar Observations group C
NOT prep AD
NOT AD (A late)
7.
Late morning meeting
Evening Lectures for non-observers
Night reports
8,9,10
Late morning meeting
Evening Lectures for non-observers
Night reports
11 reductions and reports
12 reductions and reports - school ends
The introductionary lectures during the first few days:
Opening of summer school, practical information and scope of the course.
(J. Sollerman)
A first introduction to telescopes and instrumentation, in particular
the NOT
(M. Andersen)
Exam on the reading assignments
(J. Sollerman)
Optical Photometry
(J. Fynbo)
Optical Spectroscopy
(J. Sollerman)
How to write a successful proposal
(G. Östlin)
Infrared observations
(A. Kaas)
The Sun and the solar telescope
(D. Kiselman)
Most sessions will be tutored by several lecturers. I have listed only
the main responsible(s) for the different sessions above. We will also
offer tutorial sessions on the astrophysics related to the different projects
to the relevant groups.