The purpose of this workshop is to give you an overview of functionality in Astropy, and get you started with some simple problems. There is a lot of functionality that we cannot cover in this workshop, so we encourage you to browse the Astropy Documentation to get a sense of what it can be used for!
The notebooks/ directory contains the following IPython notebooks which
contain the workshop material. Apart from the introduction, each topic has an
accompanying solutions notebook with solutions for the exercises.
- Introduction:
01_Introduction.ipynb - Units and Quantities:
02_Unit_Conversion.ipynb - Tables:
03_Tables.ipynb - Handling FITS Files:
04_Handling_FITS_Files.ipynb - Handling ASCII Data Tables:
05_Handling_ASCII_data_tables.html - Celestial Coordinates
06_Celestial_Coordinates.ipynb
To run the notebooks in from the git repository using IPython notebook, do:
% cd notebooks % ipython notebook
This should fire up an index page in your default web browser.
The notebook files and data can be downloaded in a zip file:
http://bit.ly/astropy-scipy2014
The notebooks themselves are under notebooks/ and their associated
data files under notebooks/docs/.
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