PUBLIC MARKS with tag astronomie

visualization of a sample of Twitter @mentions on one day in late June. Each vertex is a Twitter account. Each directed edge is a mention of one Twitter account by another.

while they spent 30% of their time developing software, 97% are self-taught programmers

brief summary of some basic

information needed to get started quickly with R in a broadly

astronomical context.

SAMP is a messaging protocol that enables astronomy software tools to interoperate and communicate.

In many of his investigations, Olson and his students use the methods of modern astronomy to determine precisely where and when a particular work of art was created or to pinpoint the event that inspired it. For example, Olson analysed Vincent van Gogh's Moonrise, a painting depicting a glowing yellow orb looming behind the silhouette of a rocky outcrop. Olson was able to determine the exact spot in France from which van Gogh viewed the rising moon, as well as the precise time: 9:08 pm, 13 July 1889.

This site is a community-driven knowledge base for research in astronomy using Python. For more information about the site, how to contribute, and the AstroPython team please click on the About link.

astLib is a set of Python modules that provides some tools for research astronomers. It can be used for astronomical plots, some statistics, common calculations, coordinate conversions, and manipulating FITS images with World Coordinate System (WCS) information through PyWCSTools - a simple wrapping of WCSTools by Doug Mink. PyWCSTools is distributed (and developed) as part of astLib.

We describe how Python is used in a large astronomy project to automatically process data from several telescopes in both the hemispheres. We introduce the general problem and discuss challenges and lessons learned.