Teaching materials

Computational Astronomy:

Lecture notes and Tuts:

2009
2010

Examples and tips:

Unix tips and tricks
Example codelet 1
Histogram example
Fitting a line
A simple FITS viewer.
Peak finding module.

Some movies:

Movie 1: in phase
Movie 2: out of phase
Movie 3: quasar's-eye view

Python documentation:

Package Web pages Local PDF doco
pyfits STSCI pyfits home page pyfits_manual.pdf
numpy numpy home page numpybook.pdf
scipy (closely related to numpy) scipy home page scipy-ref.pdf
pylab (part of matplotlib) matplotlib home page Matplotlib.pdf
Numeric HTML version of doco Numeric.pdf
ppgplot ppgplot home page

PGPLOT home page

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Other links of interest:

AIPS home page

AIPS Cookbook