do I know this person?

Charles Steinhardt- http://db.ipmu.jp/member/personal/1268en.html

Some HEASARC proposoal tools (link)

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/Tools/multimissiontools.html

where to find latest emulateapj and apj.bst

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

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

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/

Iraf notes

Recommend resources

http://iraf.noao.edu/docs/recommend.html

Some astronomy programming tips

http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2013/01/datascience.html
http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jss/lecture/computing/notes/out/programming/