ASTR 211

These materials are from a course which I taught the programming/observing portions of at Wesleyan University. Upon review, there are a fair number of typos and small (mostly aesthetic) errors, but nothing which the clever reader can’t work around. I plan to update these tutorials and release them on a separate page in the future, and I will update this page when I do.

Welcome to the webpage for the lab section of ASTR 211 for Spring 2021. Here you’ll find some helpful resources and lab materials. I’ll be updating the page often, so be sure to check back before lab each week.

Class materials

Lab 1 (Feb. 17)	Lab 2 (Feb. 24)
Intro to Unix handout	Tutorial 2.1: Conditionals & Loops
Tutorial 1.1: Python Basics	Tutorial 2.2: Functions
Tutorial 1.2: Strings, Lists & Arrays (`numpy`)	Tutorial 2.3: Plotting Basics (`matplotlib`)
Lab 1 Exercises notebook	Lab 2 Exercises notebook
Lab 1 recording	Lab 2 recording
Lab 1 Exercises solutions	Lab 2 Exercises solutions

Lab 3 (Mar. 3)	Lab 4 (Mar. 10)
Tutorial 3.1: More Plotting	Tutorial 4.1: Astronomical Image Processing
Tutorial 3.2: Reading & Writing Data (`pandas`)	Processing pipeline example code
Tutorial 3.3 (Bonus): Advanced Plotting	Processing pipeline example data
Lab 3 Exercises notebook	Notes on array math for image processing
CSV for Lab 3 Exercises	Lab 4 recording
Lab 3 recording
Lab 3 Exercises solutions

Lab 5 (Mar. 31)
Tutorial 5.1: TBD

Observing materials

24” Training
24” PlaneWave telescope manual (early draft)
24” PlaneWave telescope startup/shutdown checklist
24” PlaneWave telescope training recording (Part 1)
24” PlaneWave telescope training recording (Part 2)

Resources

Python	Software & Documentation	Misc
Python for Astronomers	Anaconda	Intro to Unix
Think Python	Atom	SDSS SQL Tutorial
Python Data Science Handbook	Spyder	Intro to Git & GitHub
Python Graph Gallery		Markdown Guide