8.982 :: Selected Topics in Astrophysics

1. James Grahams review of aberration theory
2. A generally useful discussion of telescope optics
3. Course notes for University of Rochester Astronomy 203/403 (in essence "telescopes and instrumentation") taught in 1999 by Dan Watson.
4. "Recent advances in astronomical optics" by B. Gascoigne
   (a concise description of the aberrations, and corrections
   thereof, of one and two mirror telescopes). (The full text is available from MIT IP addresses.)
5. Jay Lockman's paper "Can remote observing be good observing?"
6. notes for Alan Rogers' talk on radio receivers and detectors