Data-driven Astronomy

There is a really nice course on Coursera called Data-Driven Astronomy. I highly recommend you delve into it. I took it a couple of months ago and it gave me a really great introduction to how data is used in astronomy. For example, one of the sections teaches you about classifying galaxies into specific classes using some machine learning classifiers.

I understand it might be a bit too complex but the course is structured in a way that it gives you all the resources and help you need.

thanks for sharing!

https://www.coursera.org/learn/data-driven-astronomy

I study CS and I don't know the answer to your question, since I feel the same as you and I don't have much time outside of my studies to study astornomy, but I came just to say that if you are looking for online courses about this I would recommend you this one, it's basically a course of astronomy for computer scientist or programming for astronomers (I would say it's a little more focuse on CS than astronomy).

I Haven't done so much (since I'm very busy with university right now), but so far I think it's been pretty good.

Hi! I know this is an old post, but I found it now, trying to look for Astrophsics-oriented C/C++ tutorials.

I think you have learned some Python by now. You can check out this course. It explores practical applications of Python in Astronomy research, and it also introduces you SQL. You can apply for financial aid, to take the course and get a certificate for free.

I don't think so, unless you are interested in completely doing comp sci as your next step in life (ie not going to grad school in astronomy). No one will care about if you have a major versus a minor if you already are going to have a physics degree, and frankly a comp sci minor is already ahead of what a lot of folks are going to have.

As for projects you can work on, the best is getting in touch with a researcher on campus you can do research with and try to find a project related to computer coding that you can do. (I realize that's not an option in all countries.) If that isn't an option, maybe do something like this data driven astronomy class on coursera- I hear it's pretty good!

This course helped me to get started in both python and astronomy. https://www.coursera.org/learn/data-driven-astronomy

I started with this MOOC on EdX - Astrophysics - my favorite MOOC so far. If you're more into data and programming then this one was also a lot of fun - Data Driven Astronomy, but I'd still recommend to start with the first one.

Edit: Forgot to mention, you can take the courses for free. The price is only if you want a certificate or just want to pay the course creators in some way.

I recently took an online class for a related topic. Obviously not a masters degree or anything but you may be able to start digging from here / contact some of the people to learn more. Was a great MOOC, for whatever that's worth.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/data-driven-astronomy

I started this course a while back but didn't stick with it because I had too much on my plate. It seemed really interesting to me, but I know virtually nothing about astronomy, only took one intro to astronomy course in university:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/data-driven-astronomy

https://www.coursera.org/learn/data-driven-astronomy/home/welcome
this is a free course in which you also load fits or csv files of different visual / radio surveys.

it uses python as a language to work with it.
if you have no other place, it might be a good start to teach you about 2d spherical coordinates (right ascension, declination) and distance calculations.

There is some mooc on coursera on the subject. A little on the astronomy side.

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• https://www.coursera.org/learn/astro/A basic. it's long in terms of video time, playback time... but cover a lot of subject.

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• https://www.coursera.org/learn/astronomy-technologyA technique : I love it when it talks about instruments and tools.

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• https://www.coursera.org/learn/data-driven-astronomyA data : I think that this one allows to have a good vision of the work.

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• https://www.coursera.org/learn/life-on-other-planetsA document : I've already done this one and the teacher is pretty wicked. A lot of materials are shown.

Some book are free on springer : https://link.springer.com/search/page/3?facet-content-type=%22Book%22&facet-discipline=%22Physics%22&package=mat-covid19_textbooks&sortOrder=newestFirst&showAll=true

Principles of Astrophysics : https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-1-4614-9236-8.pdf

Fundamental Astronomy : https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-662-53045-0.pdf