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FITS images with catalog overlays

by Jessica March 17, 2010

I have been using ds9 to display images primarily due to inertia. I like the catalog tool for existing catalogs available online; but I wish there were a way to use custom catalog files without RA and Dec (just pixel coordinates) as well. I commonly resort to making ds9 region files, but this requires knowing [...]

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Links: SIMBAD Annotations, IDL 8.0, Mendeley Goes Social, and More.

by Kelle March 5, 2010

Annotations service released | CDS news Add comments to SIMBAD objects! “…not intended to supersede email support via question@simbad, but to improve the contents of SIMBAD contents and the level of interaction between CDS staff and SIMBAD users.” (via August Muench.)
Blogging the IDL User's Group Meeting | comp.lang.idl-pvwave Discussion about the new features [...]

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Links: Clear Distractions and Books, Google Buzz, Two Tales from the Trenches, and More.

by Kelle February 12, 2010

clear distractions | mnmlist.com Nothing we haven’t been told before, but sometimes it helps to be reminded.
A minimalist approach to books | mnmlist.com Get rid of the books you never use! Get a library card. If you insist on buying books — I find the airport bookstore particularly tempting — give them away or leave [...]

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Links: AAS Tweets Rundown, Screen Sharing, Wave FAQ, and more.

by Kelle January 15, 2010

MacBook Generations, alternate view, by Robert S. Donovan. via TUAW.

Tweets from the 215th meeting of the AAS | Douglas Burke Word clouds from the tweets. Fine, just #aas next time.
MIT Pledges to Improve Conditions for Minority Faculty Members | ScienceInsider
Mac OS X’s application switcher does not go both ways | Finer Things in Mac [...]

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Links: new IDL routines, Quicksilver updated, figure placement in LaTeX, and more…

by Kelle December 4, 2009
  • New Programming Books for Scientists
  • New Coyote Program: SetDifference
  • New Coyote Program: SetUnion
  • Write or Rest During Your break? Here’s a Plan!
  • Quicksilver releases new beta 57
  • Who is advising our female astronomy students?
  • [...]
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Read IDL ‘save’ files into Python

by Tom November 24, 2009

One of the most popular posts on this blog is Kelle’s reposting of Greenfield and Jedrzejewski’s IDL vs Python earlier this year. I am an avid Python user and have never installed IDL on my computer. Recently, I developed IDLSave, a package to read IDL ‘save’ files into Python, after being sent a few such [...]

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Better ways to make large image mosaics?

by Kelle October 21, 2009

Given the useful responses to Jane’s question about spectral line analysis, here’s another query for the community. This one is about making large image mosaics and it comes from Adam Ginsburg, a grad student at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
I want to make a large-scale mosaic of the Galactic Plane covering 90-180 degrees x a [...]

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Links: Things+Dropbox, Brief Emails, Airline Upgrades, and more…

by Kelle October 18, 2009

I really need to post these more often…
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IDL vs. Python

by Kelle May 4, 2009

Here is a really nice listing of the pros and cons of IDL and Python for astronomers. It’s an Appendix of the Python tutorial Using Python for Interactive Data Analysis by Greenfield and Jedrzejewski at STScI. Data and scripts for the examples and exercises in the tutorial are available at scipy.org.
Update 28 Jan 2010: We’ve [...]

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Making Fonts Better in IDL Postscript Output

by Kelle April 23, 2009

We’ve all seen it before, illegible labels on a figure in a paper or talk. I don’t know how to remedy this problem in SuperMongo or other popular plotting programs, but I do in IDL. I’ve addressed the topic of postscript output on my IDL figures page but in this post I’m just going to [...]

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