Nothing Ever Happens 2024-YR4

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• cybervseas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • i_love_FFT@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Former 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/

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    • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Username checks out.

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