Resources for Wesleyan Students

All of these pages were originally assembled by Eric Williams. I will be updating them as time allows. Some of the information may now be out-of-date, links may be dead, etc.

Powerpoint presentation on CCDs

UNIX @ VVO - Information on using UNIX at VVO, including links for IDL, IRAF, Ghostscript, and other software we use.

Basic IDL introduction

LaTeX help for your thesis

Astronomy department policy on disk usage and backups

Links to MacOS X resources

Instructions for remote logging in and setting display output.

Van Vleck Observatory 24-inch Telescope Observers Manual in PDF format. Now probably hopelessly out of date.