Andrew Williams

Astronomers have been dealing with digital data since the 1980s and online databases since the early 90's, and now, almost all research astronomers use Python to access and process that data. Most astronomical database are open to the public, and most research software tools are either open...

The Australian half of the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope will collect 7.2 Terabits/second of raw data from 131,072 antennae grouped into 512 'stations' with 256 antennae each - but every antenna needs to be connected to a box within a few metres of that antenna, for a DC power supply,...

Create 3D rendered animations in a few lines of Python, for teaching concepts in Physics and Astronomy. Let your students write some simple code to, for example, model the movement of a bouncing ball due to gravity, and with only a couple of lines of extra code, actually render and animate the ball.