In this project you will learn how to do Gaia sattelite database queries and plot half-a-million stars in Sun’s immediate 200-parsec neighborhood using Python.
- how to write setup for doing database queries in python
- how to query using Gaia sattelite API and receive a file with 500,000 rows of star data
- how to create datframes and process that data
- how to plot half-a-million stars in Sun’s immediate 200-parsec neighborhood
- marvel at the main sequence, white dwarfs, and super luminaries in our galaxy
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You will be completing these notebooks below in sequence. You can return to this project and others for the Python for Astronomy Workshop from the top-level table of contents linked here