Fri, 06/21/2013 - 13:36
Hello AAVSO members,
I am an amateur astronomer from India doing Photometry in my college as a project. I have taken photos from DSLR Canon 1100D on a tripod. The stars I had chosen were eclipsing binaries. All of them were short period stars with a time period of near about 10-12 days. I have got the data from the photos in the form of pixel brightness but I am unable to use to do further calculations based on this data. I would like to know what else I can infer from this data and what further calculations can be made.
Thanking you
Aayush Sultania
To: Aayush,
You can check out this link for SRL photometry: http://www.citizensky.org/content/starting-analysis
You can download the IRIS program to use in anayzing your SLR images data.
Most of folks here use MaximDL, but price maybe a concern and that program is geared more towards CCD camera photometry. Hope your successful as we have very little sky coverage of variable stars at your longitude.
Good luck!
James Foster
Los Angeles, Calif.