Astronomy with Python, for non-astronomers
summary
Shows concrete recipes: use astropy Time and SkyCoord to get precise epochs and transform ICRS/GCRS to local altaz, use astroquery to fetch Vizier catalogs and Sesame name lookups to grab actual entries, convert RA/Dec plus parallax into XYZ positions for the nearest ~6,000 stars, compute Sun/Moon positions with Skyfield for given times and Earth locations, and pull real JWST images via the query API — all runnable code, units handled, and examples that return measurable coordinates and velocities.
AI-written summary · about
chapters (6)
- 0:00Python for astronomy
- 1:08Astronomy coordinates
- 9:16Astropy for time and coordinates
- 16:41Earth location and transformations
- 21:00Querying catalogs with Astroquery
- 26:38Resources and closing
related talks
45mRadio Astronomy for Programmers
30mVisualization of the sky in Notebooks: the ipyaladin widget extension
33mPython VS Space Junk
34mHow to Play with Deep Space Data
35mFrom Space to Code: Using NASA's Open Data APIs with Kepler
35mClimate change analyzing remote sensing data with Python
14m"Building an API for the Planet..."
32mA beginner's guide to data analysis in cosmology using Jupyter Notebook