All materials required for the workshop activities are located here
for reference and download. They are also available for download on
the workshop Google Drive. If you have difficulty downloading
materials, contact the Support
Astronomers for assistance.
Workshop Poster
Participant List (updated 2023-10-11)
There are two data reduction activies. Direct imaging data reduction
using Python and spectroscopic data reduction using IRAF (and a little
Python).
Direct Imaging Data Reduction
Workshop participants should download/unzip the 'Data Reduction Notebooks' file below.
Alternatively, the most up-to-date version of the software will always
be available on github.
If you are not using Anaconda/Jupyter, you'll want to download the PDF
instead, so that you can copy/paste directly into ipython
Python 3:
Data Reduction Notebooks
Data Reduction PDF
Nickel Data sets:
Nickel+CCD Data, 2018-10-13 (to be used in case conditions
prevent taking your own data with the Nickel Telescope).
Nickel+CCD Data, 2020-10-10 (to be used in case conditions
prevent taking your own data with the Nickel Telescope).
If you have a recent M1 or M2 Mac and can't get DS9 to work, the following Jupyter Notebook gives a basic example of image display:
Python FITS file image display
Alternatively, you can use an on-line version of DS9: https://js9.si.edu.
The following are not strictly necessary for the workshop, but are useful for Lick Observatory data reduction.
Python Scripts:
fixbadCCDcols.py
overscanLickObsP3.py