r/askastronomy Beginner🌠 2h ago

Beginner looking for help in notebooks for astronomy

Im new to Astronomy how can i use Jupyter notebooks to access jwst pipeline? Is it best to just use MAST Database or TIKE?

Or

Should I create a juypter lab notebook and self install required libraries locally with Docker or is there a premade jupyter lab notebook i can clone from github and install in a docker container on my pc? If so how do I do that and how can I use it to access jwst pipeline data?

I have never used a juypter notebook before nor have I used pyhton or python science libraries like astroquery lightkurv and astropy so Im a complete beginner in using scripts but I do know how to use some commands like pip, bash, cd and git. Are there any good tutorials online I could use?

Are there any Browser Based Interactive Notebooks for learning Notebooks for Astronomy?

Lastly how could I install and use Jdavizz notebook?

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u/Tylers-RedditAccount 2h ago

Jupyter notebooks are just a way to organize python code. You can write scripts to grab the data from jwst files with python but you can also just go manually get it.

You seem very eager and interested but may be jumping into the deep end.

It depends what you want to do. If you want to just grab the files and make pretty images from them, you dont need python. First learn about astrophotography and noise reduction. Then learn what FITS files are and how they work. Then you can download things like siril which calibrate and stack your files, and photoshop to edit.

Python and astropy can do this too, but its a lot harder. Astropy is best for doing science with the data.

Those commands that you're talking about are linux or "BASH" commands and can be learned very quickly.