2011
Why Astronomers Should Program in Python | Exploring the Data Universe
sounds familiar :)while they spent 30% of their time developing software, 97% are self-taught programmers
2010
Astropython
This site is a community-driven knowledge base for research in astronomy using Python. For more information about the site, how to contribute, and the AstroPython team please click on the About link.
astLib | Python astronomy modules
astLib is a set of Python modules that provides some tools for research astronomers. It can be used for astronomical plots, some statistics, common calculations, coordinate conversions, and manipulating FITS images with World Coordinate System (WCS) information through PyWCSTools - a simple wrapping of WCSTools by Doug Mink. PyWCSTools is distributed (and developed) as part of astLib.
Python for Large Astronomical Data Reduction and Analysis Systems (#107) - PyCon 2010 Atlanta - A Conference for the Python Community
We describe how Python is used in a large astronomy project to automatically process data from several telescopes in both the hemispheres. We introduce the general problem and discuss challenges and lessons learned.
2009
stsci_python Home Page
stsci_python is a library of Python routines and C extensions that has been developed to provide a general astronomical data analysis infrastructure.
2008
