Astronomical Observing Techniques 2

1. Introduction
2. Survey of history, techniques, and results
3. Information content of astronomical signals
4. Basic radiation quantities
5. Observing through the atmosphere
6. Basic Fourier theory
7. Telescopes and optics: principles
8. Telescopes and imaging in practice
9. Spectroscopic techniques
10. Photon statistics and noise
11. Detectors in the incoherent regime
12. Incoherent vs. coherent detection
13. Principles of radio astronomy
14. Radio astronomy receivers
15. Antennas
16. Radio aperture synthesis

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