Cool Star Lab Summer Workshop #1: Stellar Astronomy Basics
Channel: Adam Burgasser
Date: 2023-06-12

In this session we do a high-level overview of the properties of stars:
• Observable & fundamental properties of stars
• Brightness, color, and magnitudes
• Spectral energy distributions & blackbody function • Stellar spectra
• Stellar coordinates, proper motions, & parallax
• The HR Diagram
• Studying stellar populations