Optical observations of stellar and non-stellar objects
Danny Steeghs, University of Warwick, UK

Lecture 1: 

• Timescales across the HR diagram
• Key (optical) properties of compact objects
• Compact binary systems & accretion variability

Lecture 2:

• Oscillations, pulsations and seismology
• Transits and Eclipses

Lecture 3 & Lecture 4:

• Reconstruction methods
• Fast photometry
• Lightcurve modeling demo

Lecture 5 & Lecture 6:

• Multi-wavelength aspects
• Fast spectroscopy
• Spectroscopy analysis demo