List of Textbooks for Astronomical Techniques 1

General (covering many course topics)

Rieke: Detection of Light: From the Ultraviolet to Submillimeter (Cambridge:2002) A book describing the physics of light detection, including CCDs, photodiodes, heterodyne receivers, and much more. Strong emphasis on the relevant solid-state physics.
Bradt: Astronomy Methods: A Physical Approach to Astronomical Observations (Cambridge: 2004) This book, as its title implies, emphasizes observational techniques, and will be particularly useful in discussions of telescopes and detectors. It is quite pedagogical, but at times does not go quite into the depth that we will require to tackle the assignments.
Kitchin: Astrophysical Techniques (Sixth edition, CRC press, 2014). Detailed discussions of detectors in astronomy, similar in scope to the book by Bradt, but somewhat more advanced. Comprehensively covers most topics in this course, but occasionally hard to follow.
Birney, Gonzalez, Osper: Observational Astronomy covers many topics in this course at an elementary level.
Lena, Lebrun, Mignard, Lyle:Observational Astrophysics comprehensive but somewaht dated text on techniques.
Cox: Astrophysical Quantities A useful reference work listing, in encyclopedic fashion, large quantities of astrophysical facts. Useful as a reference, but not as a textbook to learn from.

MacLean: Electronic imaging in astronomy , 2nd edition (Springer: 2008) A very good introduction to detectors and instrumentation.
Howell: Handbook of CCD Astronomy, 2nd Edition (Cambridge: 2006) A summary of the use of CCDs in astronomy, at a level appropriate for this course
Glass: Handbook of Infrared Astronomy excellent text on IR instrumentation and techniques at a level suitable for this course.

Wall and Jenkins: Practical Statistics for Astronomers (Cambridge: 2003) This covers much of the same territory as Lupton's book, with more astronomical examples with somewhat less mathematical sophistication, like a cookbook.
Lupton: Statistics in Theory and Practice (Princeton: 1993). This is a terse but complete summary of statistics for mathematically sophisticated physical scientists. Amazingly comprehensive in well under 200 pages.
Taylor: An Introduction to Error Analysis: The Study of Uncertainties in Physical Measurements (University Science Books; 2nd edition, 1996) A classic introduction to the field. A must read book.

Henden & Kaitchuk: Astronomical photometry The standard introduction to the field.
Budding & Demircan: Introduction to astronomical photometry a more practical and uptodate book.

Arnaud: Handbook of X-ray Astronomy The chapters on X-ray telescopes and techniques are relevant to this course.

Born and Wolf: Principles of Optics an advanced and scholarly text on all aspects of optics, but I find it very hard to understand.

Tinbergen: Astronomical Polarimetry a comprehensive textbook on the subject that covers polarimetry at all wavebands.