Practical tips for setting up a research project, or “Things I wish I had known when I started my PhD”: Part 1
There are lots of tricks to help keep a research project organised – this post may save you from learning them the hard way! Part 1 of 2.
There are lots of tricks to help keep a research project organised – this post may save you from learning them the hard way! Part 1 of 2.
So you went observing, and you got a time series of images for precise photometry and you want to plot a light curve. Now what? Where do you start? Right here, with AstroImageJ.
Astrobites is looking for new interactive software to help teach astronomy – you can contribute!
We asked each student in our Harvard AY201b course to develop an online software module that they could use to teach their peers, and other students around the world. See the amazing results!
Alice Allen writes to encourage you to post your codes in the Astrophysics Source Code Library, a repository for all software used in research.
For many astronomers, we spend 80% of every work day parked in front of a computer screen. We code, we write, we make plots, we think, we read… all from our desk chairs. Over the last two years, I’ve found a handful of software that helps me productive and happy at my screen.