Home Page of Nigel Douglas

Astrophysics preprints
IRAF INTRO (Douglas, Kapteyn Institute)
IRAF FOR DUMMIES (Douglas, Kapteyn Institute)
IRAF tutorials
another good IRAF intro (Statler, Ohio)
Where is PimDouglas today?
Alternative Blaauw Observatory site
VLT log
VLT notes
Big Telescopes
Tonights asteroids
Kapteyn Institute
PN.S
NED
Teaching
pix2009
NASA ADS
NASA ADS SEARCH
TRIAL
The time!
Astronomy meetings

Klein Onderzoek 2006 carried out by Johan Hidding

Research interests

• planetary nebulae as probes of galaxy dynamics and as distance indicators, especially with the Planetary Nebula Spectrograph .
• dark matter implications of rotation curves
• innovative instrumentation such as the HHS

Publications

The Astronomical Resources compendium on the Kapteyn Institute web site includes the
local IRAF help page as well as the useful STARPOS object visibility calculator
and the less useful VLT-list

Teaching

Book Reviews:
The Eye (and visual optical instruments)
The Eye (and visual optical instruments)
The Invisible Sky (ROSAT and the age of X-ray astronomy)

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Links:

• our private home page
• books and other things for sale
• the world's largest telescopes
• today's weather here in Groningen
• world hotel guide
• Annals of Improbable Research (see for example the Australian scientists are awarded a patent on the wheel - in 2001)
• DISPLAY (ImageMagick) help
• XCDROAST
• FORTRAN 77 commands
• LaTeXe 1.6 commands
• BibTeX (1)
• BibTeX (2)
• HTML resources:
  • safe colours
  • Annabella's HTML Help
  • Web Design Group
  • NCSA guide

  M31 talk VLT log
  

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  Locating me:

  	Zilvermeer 16 9735 BA Groningen Netherlands    ( afdeling sterrenkunde)
  	+31(50)5418670 (home) 06-10058948 (sometimes) +31(50)3634088 (work)
  	+31(50)3636100 (work)
  ndouglas@astro.rug.nl

  For a map showing where we live please go to our private home page

    
  

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