Excel (and similar spreadsheets such as LibreOffice and Numbers) is very useful for playing with small amounts of data. If you find yourself handling large amounts of data, you are usually better off using a real programming language such as Python, and we will come to that later. In this lesson, you will learn how to plot and fit data with error bars in Excel. Unfortunately, details of how to plot error bars differ between different apreadsheets and even different versions of Excel. ...

... Printed in U.S.A. THE STELLAR DISK THICKNESS OF LOW SURFACE BRIGHTNESS GALAXIES D. Bizyaev 1,2,3 and S. Kajsin 4 Received 2003 October 23; accepted 2004 June 9 ABSTRACT We present surface photometry results for a sample of 11 edge-on galaxies observed with the 6 m telescope at the Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russia. ... We find from a comparison of photometric scales that the stellar disks of LSB galaxies are thinner than those of high surface brightness ( HSB) galaxies. ... UGC 11301 .. ...