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Starting from the very beginning

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 [[Color-color and color-magnitude diagrams]] -- a way of looking at the brightnesses of up to 4 bands per object for many objects at once. Color-magnitude diagrams and color-color diagrams are ubiquitous in astronomy.
-[[Color selection]]
+[[Color selection]] -- how to find types of objects using color-magnitude and color-color diagrams
 =Other concepts=

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	[[Color-color and color-magnitude diagrams]] -- a way of looking at the brightnesses of up to 4 bands per object for many objects at once. Color-magnitude diagrams and color-color diagrams are ubiquitous in astronomy.		[[Color-color and color-magnitude diagrams]] -- a way of looking at the brightnesses of up to 4 bands per object for many objects at once. Color-magnitude diagrams and color-color diagrams are ubiquitous in astronomy.
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	=Other concepts=		=Other concepts=

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	<font color=red>Everything below this is a bookmark to something that needs to be cleaned up and placed properly above</font>		<font color=red>Everything below this is a bookmark to something that needs to be cleaned up and placed properly above</font>
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−	~~[[Color-Magnitude and Color-Color plots]]~~
−	~~A general discussion of color-magnitude and color-color plots.~~
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	[[Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs)]] -- a way of looking at the energy emitted by a given object at many wavelengths at once. SEDs are ubiquitous in IR astronomy.		[[Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs)]] -- a way of looking at the energy emitted by a given object at many wavelengths at once. SEDs are ubiquitous in IR astronomy.
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		+	[[Color-color and color-magnitude diagrams]] -- a way of looking at the brightnesses of up to 4 bands per object for many objects at once. Color-magnitude diagrams and color-color diagrams are ubiquitous in astronomy.

	=Other concepts=		=Other concepts=

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 [[Astronomical imaging]] -- includes color tables and stretches
-''artifacts''
+[[Image artifacts]]
 [[Filters]]

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 [[Resolution]] -- spatial resolution matters!
-[[Magnitudes]] -- brightnesses of things are often given in magnitudes.
+[[Magnitudes]] -- brightnesses of astronomical things are often given in magnitudes.
 [[FITS format]] -- professional astronomy images are usually in FITS format. If you're doing science, you shouldn't be using gifs, jpgs, pngs.

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 =Critically important concepts=
-[[Literature searching]] -- How can you find out what scientists already know about a particular astronomy topic or object? Literature searching is an '''essential''' part of doing scientific research!
+[[Literature searching]] -- How can you find out what scientists already know about a particular astronomy topic or object? Literature searching is an '''essential''' part of doing scientific research.
 [[Resolution]] -- spatial resolution matters!
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 [[Diffraction]] -- related to, but different from, resolution. Diffraction matters! The 'rings' you see around some Spitzer sources aren't the dust rings around those sources!
-[[Confusion]] -- Depending on where you are looking and what wavelength you are using and specifically what you are doing, confusion can matter!
+[[Confusion]] -- Depending on where you are looking and what wavelength you are using and specifically what you are doing, confusion can matter.
-[[Infrared Background]] -- Depending on where you are looking and what wavelength you are using and specifically what you are doing, the IR background can matter!
+[[Infrared Background]] -- Depending on where you are looking and what wavelength you are using and specifically what you are doing, the IR background can matter.

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	[[Archives]] -- what an archive is and why it's important.		[[Archives]] -- what an archive is and why it's important.
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		+	[[Astronomers as people]]

	=Reference pages=		=Reference pages=

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 [[Mosaics]] -- Typically objects or regions in space we want to study are too large for the telescope to capture in a single image or frame, so the telescope has to take many frames which are combined using software into a single image or what is commonly called a mosaic (or sometimes a map).
-''astronomical imaging; color tables and stretches''
+[[Astronomical imaging]] -- includes color tables and stretches
 ''artifacts''

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 =Starting from the very beginning=
-[[How science works and other philosophical musings]] <font color="red">Specifically needs help</font>
+[[How science works and other philosophical musings]]
 [[Light beyond the visible]] -- There are a LOT of resources available all over the web on this, so just a few links listed here.