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Week1

My Python Primer

Miniconda Python

Ivanti Secure Access Client VPN

Python tutorial for astronomers

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Examples of publication-quality figures

The comprehensive Python tutorial

numpy.loadtxt

numpy.genfromtxt

The matplotlib tutorial

How to fit a line in Python (scroll down for examples)

Community library for astronomy-related Python tools -- ----------

astropy - install with conda

PyFITS - (astro) industry standard fits file handler

PyFITS documentation from STScI

Why did astropy adopt PyFITS?

What are rec arrays?

More than you ever wanted to know about the FITS standard

struc.fits data file for week1

example Python program (polycalc.py)

Week2

Models of airmass

astropy.coordinates

astropy.time

Hints on calculating airmass for an observing location (see instructions [24-33] in "Transforming to More Complex Coordinate Frames: Computing the Altitude of a Target at an Observatory")

Old version AltAz tutorial ----------

Help with SkyCoord for Galactic coordinates

RA/Dec of the constellations, click a constellation for a map

Rotation Matrix

Galactic Coordinate System

Ecliptic Coordinate System

Week3

VPN Pulse Secture Download

My Git Primer

Git GUIs (I have used SourceTree)

DSI Git Tutorial

Git Website

Git Tutorial

Interactive Git Visualization Tool

Simple Guide to Git

Basic Git Commands

Git Command Cheat Sheet

Git GUIs (I have used SourceTree) ----------

Discovery of Interstellar Dust; Trumpler (1930)

Github page for sfdmap package

Github page for SFD dust maps in fits format

Github page for extinction package

DR18 SDSS Navigate Tool

Schlegel, Finkbeiner & Davis (1998)

Dust Maps; Schlegel, Finkbeiner & Davis (1998) -- webpage

Equations for interstellar reddening by dust

numpy.meshgrid (see final example)

Matplotlib contour plots