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 ............ code.visualstu...
Python ................................ www.python.org...
Having trouble finding FITS files to work with? Find some here: archive.stsci....
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: github.com/lai...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This work made use of Astropy (www.astropy.org) a community-developed core Python package and an ecosystem of tools and resources for astronomy (Astropy, 2013, 2018, 2022).