ZurizNothing Ever Happens 2024-YR4
Is there a good resource for what the data that astronomers get from there kinds of telescopes look like, and how they parse it? Data nerd here, but I don’t understand astronomical sciences.
i_love_FFTFormer astronomer here! You can download a lot of data from open access websites such as data.nasa.gov or any of the big digital surveys.
I don’t know about today’s data format, but it used to be all on the FITS format, with lots of libraries in Python/Matlab/etc., and also the excellent SAOImage DS9, all available for free.
Here are some links: sites.google.com/cfa.harvard.edu/…/download en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITS www.stsci.edu/…/our-collections www.sdss.org/dr19/data_access/
SAOImageDS9 - Download
SAOImageDS9 is released annually, with beta versions (denoted as b1, b2, etc.) available for download between major releases. Scroll past the latest release to view the current beta versions. Expand each section to view the currently supported operating system versions. NOTE: If Chrome users have
Username checks out.