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General Principles of Observing with CCDs

• PREFACE
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• A Basic Description
  • The Structure of CCDs
  • CCD performance
    • Efficiency
    • Resolution
    • Dark Current
    • Noise
    • Saturation
• Operational requirements
• Limitations, Extra Observations, and the First Stages of Analysis
  • Bias and dark count subtraction
  • Flatfielding
  • Patching
  • Further Analysis
• EXPOSURE TIME?
  • Signal-to-noise
  • Time limits
  • Shutter Speed Limitations
• WHAT EXTRA OBSERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED?
  • Bias Frames
  • Flat Fields
  • Dark counts
  • Photometric calibration
• PREPARATION FOR OBSERVING
  • Filters
  • Zeroing the Telescope
  • Telescope focus
  • Excessive humidity
• USING THE AUTOGUIDER
  • Introduction
  • Guide Stars
    • Guide Star Preparation
    • Guide Star acquisition
  • Control of the Autoguider
• OBSERVING: A RECIPE