Python for Astronomy Flyer With Link
Python for Astronomy Flyer With Link
Learn the python software language. Use it for your STEM career.
Python has become the language of astronomy and astrophysics – as well as other sciences and
engineering. Join our new Boyce-Astro seminar to get a start in python. As part of this curriculum, we
will explore the lifetimes of stars using the Hertzsprung Russell diagram (HRD). We will then learn how
to query large amounts of data from the Gaia, Kepler satellite databases using Python within Colab. We
will then analyze and filter this data to plot HRDs for thousands of stars in our immediate solar
neighborhood and distant globular clusters.
The seminar will introduce you to Python, Google Colab, Github, Markdown Syntax, Jupyter Notebook
and much more during the 5 sessions planned. If Mother Nature cooperates, we might even do a live
stream from The Bush Telescope located in Washington State!
Our instructor, Chandru Narayan, is a long time amateur astronomer and currently teaches Computer
Science and Astronomy at The Bush School, Seattle, Washington [https://www.bush.edu/].