Astropy Lesson 1: Introduction to FITS File Handling

This is the first in a series of videos where I will be teaching you how to use Astropy on Linux, Windows, or macOS. In this video, I cover the basics of which programs you'll need, and how to open and view the data stored in FITS image files.

SOFTWARE
Visual Studio Code ............ https://code.visualstudio.com/download
Python ................................ https://www.python.org/downloads/


Having trouble finding FITS files to work with? Find some here: https://archive.stsci.edu/prepds/hugs/


EXAMPLE CODE
Here's a link to my GitHub repository with sample Astronomy codes. Download 'L1_fits-handling.ipynb' for the code used in this video: https://github.com/laingmic005/apertu...


ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This work made use of Astropy (http://www.astropy.org) a community-developed core Python package and an ecosystem of tools and resources for astronomy (Astropy, 2013, 2018, 2022).