SUBJECT
Title
Astronomical Informaion Technology
Type of instruction
practical
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
2
Recommended in
Semester 1
Typically offered in
Autumn semester
Course description
Review of programming skills:
- algorithms
- C / C++ programming language
Introducion to astronomical image processing:
- technical images (bias/dark/lat)
- astronomical image format (its)
Introducion to IDL (Interactive Data Language) programming language:
- IDL used for data input/output/analysis
- IDL used for its image format - IDL used for scieniic visualizaion
- using the IDL Astronomy Users Library (http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Readings
- Press & Teukolsky: Numerical recipes. 3rd ed., Cambridge UP, 2007
- Bowman: An introducion to programming with IDL. Academic press, 2005:
- Kartunen et al.: Fundamental Astronomy. 5Th ed., Springer, 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-34143-7