Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
1 Hour(s) 20 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Sachin C
Rating
Course Overview
Python Astronomy
Today the astronomy has evolved and grown at an unprecedented rate, particularly in the past decade. The use of Python is noticeably growing among the scientific community, and Astronomy. The power of Python consists of being an extremely versatile high-level language, easy to program that combines both traditional programming and data reduction and analysis tools Python is a great language for science and specifically for astronomy. In this course you will learn how to solve astronomical problems by using python like:-
· Finding exoplanets
· Plotting gravitational wave
· Handling astronomical image file
· Solving Kepler's problem
· Astronomical coordinates
· Astronomical Units
· Plotting Graph
· Python as a calculator
For this course no prior knowledge of python is required. You will also learn about the various python library packages such as numpy, scipy, matplotlib and astropy. To work with the astronomy mostly we will use astropy library. The Astropy project is committed to fostering an inclusive community. The community of participants in open source Astronomy projects is made up of members from around the globe with a diverse set of skills, personalities, and experiences. At the end of the course you will have an excellent understanding of python astronomy.
Requirements:
Computer with python installed
Passion to learn and grow
Course Content
- 1 section(s)
- 12 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction
What You’ll Learn
- Understand and apply basic physics and computational techniques to solve problems in astrophysics, and interpret the results.
- Identify different astronomical objects
- Realtime data of celestial bodies
- Explore different libraries
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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SSamuel H Dupree
The course material was fine. However, what prevented me from giving the course a better rating was understanding what the instructor was saying. His diction and enunciation were at times poor, making it impossible to understand what was being said. I would highly recommend that lecturers not only have a command of English but also have good diction and enunciation to ensure they are understandable to the audience.
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PPheiroijam Suranjoy Singh
Good. But, just basics.
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MMarvin Kohls
Really great course if you have no idea of imperative programming languages and are just getting started with astronomy, not doing any observations yourself. It completely lacks the application. As an astronomer you start with a huge amount of raw FITS files and you have to apply complex transformations and platesolving before even starting to look at the flux in photometric analyses. And further on, you have to correct for several effects. This course needs a workover with several followup sections where each topic is covered in more detail. Also the methods for data taking need to be covered in a way to make it understandable why certain methods are applied this way.
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EEric Kreipe
Yes, very basic about Python, but .... This was exactly what I was looking for, something to give me a bridge between the observed data and detection methods using Python.
