Acknowledgments
Parts
of this manual , particularly the equipment section, have been taken from
my book ZEN and the Art of Photoelectric Photometry. Zero
Point, Extinction and Color Transformation determinations are some of
the parts taken from WORKBOOK for ASTRONOMICAL PHOTOELECTRIC PHOTOMETRY
by Paul C. Schmmidtke and myself. Much of the equipment and techniques
have been developed over the past 25 years from thousands of hours of
observations and work. While there are many ways to approach each problem,
the following presents a proven way.
I wish to thank Paul Schmitke for his help and encouragement through
my learning stages of photometry and for writing the foreword to this
manual. I also wish to thank Stanley Gorodenski for providing information
on his Blue Hills Observatory and his equipment including his Starlight-1
photometer. I also wish to thank him for helping proof the manual.