• Part 1. Introduction. Trigonometric parallaxes of stars. Moving clusters distances.
• Part 2. Photometric distances: general approach. Normal stars as "standard candles".
• Part 3. Main Sequence fitting or distance scale of star clusters. Statistical parallaxes.
• Part 4. Moving photospheres technique. Cepheid distance scale and P-L relations. RR Lyrae distance scale.
• Part 5. Globular clusters luminosity function. SuperNovae Ia type. Tulli-Fisher and Faber-Jackson relations.