Contents

1. Overview
   1. Scope of the subject
   2. Requirements
   3. Participants
   4. Targets
   5. Bibliographical notes
2. Introduction
   1. Optical photometry
   2. Historial notes
   3. Some basic terminology
   4. Radiation - waves and photons
   5. Bibliographical notes
3. Underlying Essentials
   1. Radiation field concepts
   2. Black body radiation
   3. The Sun seen as a star
   4. The bolometric correction
   5. Absolute stellar fluxes and temperatures
   6. Broadband filters - essential points
   7. Surface flux and colour correlations
   8. Bibliographical notes
4. Themes of Astronomy Photometry
   1. Extinction
   2. Atmospheric extinction
   3. The atmospheric mass
   4. Interstellar extinction
   5. Broadband filters - Data and requirements
   6. Photometry at intermediate bandwidths
   7. The uvby system
   8. Narrowband photometry
   9. Photometry of extended objects
   10. Visual photometry
   11. Solar system photometry
   12. Photometry of galactic nebulae
   13. Photometry of galaxies
   14. Photopolarimetry
   15. Bibliographical notes
5. Practicalities
   1. Overview of basic instrumentation
   2. Detectors
   3. Detective processes
   4. Detector characteristics
   5. Photomultiplier tubes
   6. Noise in single-channel photometry
   7. Areal detectors and enhancers
   8. Charge coupled devices (CCDs)
   9. Conventional measurement methods
   10. The DC method
   11. Pulse counting
   12. Bibliographical notes
6. Procedures
   1. The standard stars experiment
   2. Parameter determinacy and set size - a simple case
   3. Differential photometry
   4. Typical photometric comparison: an example
   5. Light curves of variable stars
   6. Bibliographical notes
7. Basic light curve analysis
   1. Light curve analysis - general outline
   2. Eclipsing binaries - basic facts
   3. Hand solution of light curves
   4. Computer-based light curve analysis
   5. Bibliographical notes
8. Close binary systems
   1. Orbital eccentricity
   2. Proximity effects
   3. A 16-parameter curve filter
   4. Frequency domain analysis
   5. Narrowband photometry of binaries
   6. Bibliographical notes
9. Spotted stars
   1. Introductory bakground
   2. The photometric effects of starspots
   3. Application to observations
   4. Starspots in binary systems
   5. Analysis of the light curves of RS CVn stars
   6. Bibliographical notes
10. Pulsating stars
    1. Introductory bakground
    2. The Baade-Wesselink procedure
    3. Six-colour data on classical cepheids
    4. Application to delta Cep and eta Aql
    5. Pulsational radii
    6. Bibliographical notes
    7. Appendix