Teaching observational astrophysics with the NOT

I present a new course on observational astrophysics offered since the spring of 2022 at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. The course is mainly aimed at 3d-4th year students of the BSc-MSC program in Physics and includes lectures, data analysis "AstroLAB" sessions and an observing project with the Nordic Optical Telescope. In this project the students design, propose, perform and analyze their own photometric/spectroscopic observations.