Photometrica - Instant photometry of remote telescope CCD images

Photometrica Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to measure the brightness of stars in Photometrica. It is not a photometry tutorial, although it gives some tips along the way. For background information on photometry you might want to have a look at these links.

Note that this tutorial was produced using version 1.1. Although the screen-shots might look a little different from the current ones, the principles are the same.

You should also check out this time series tutorial, written by Ed Wiley, RAS Observatory Director. This document shows how to analyise 38 images of the eclipsing binary OO Aql to produce a light curve.

Step 1: Finding your Images	Step 2: Inspecting the Images
Step 3: Stacking Images	Step 4: Measuring Stars Manually
Step 5: Importing Comp Stars	Step 6: Inspecting Measurements
Step 7: Choosing Aperture Size	Step 8: Reporting