Sunday, December 22, 2013

where to find latest emulateapj and apj.bst

http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~alexey/emulateapj/

http://ads.harvard.edu/pubs/bibtex/astronat/

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

python astronomy and science links


 basic packages

-numpy and scipy

for OS X, install the  scipy superpack-  contains "Recent builds of fundamental Python scientific computing packages for OS X" including numpy and scipy

-matplotlib

-visual python- for making 3d graphics

astronomy packages

-astropy

-ureka- space telescope science institute package that includes iraf and pyraf

astronomy guides

- Python switchers guide - has IDL commands with similar python commands


interesting looking, untried

 -Glue, "explore relationships within and among related datasets"

how to organize python project

http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/writing/structure/