2. Tutorial

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  • this is just a quick intro. you will be referred to sections within this manual for

the more detailed explanation and more information. * the intended audience are new users of astrodata, but it can obviously serve as a quick refresher for standard operations. * the data used in this tutorial and throughout the manual is packaged in gemini_python_datapkg-X1.tar.gz. The archive file can be downloaded from the Gemini website. * in the data package, the data used in this manual is stored in the directory data_for_ad_user_manual. * to run this tutorial, you will need to install gemini_python. See the Installing Astrodata section in the Introduction <intro>`.

2.1. Open and Access MEF Files

  • for the first few sections we will use the interactive Python shell
  • start python
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>>> from astrodata import AstroData
>>> ad = AstroData('....fits')

2.2. Display a MEF File

2.3. Operate on MEF Files

2.4. Create and Update MEF Files

2.5. Writing a Python Function using AstroData

Todo

Create a tutorial that shows how to do typical things an astronomer might want do.