Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Join Dr. Rob Zellem (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) as he talks about NASA's Pandora SmallSat mission, which is scheduled to launch no earlier than Fall 2025 and will monitor up to 20 transiting exoplanets and their host stars to disentangle stellar activity from the planet's atmospheric signal. Pandora's efforts will help enhance the science returns of NASA missions like Hubble and JWST. He will also present how citizen scientists and amateur astronomers can become involved and already are directly contributing to the Pandora mission and other NASA efforts.
*Timestamps:*
00:00 Opening announcements
02:26 Introduction - Brian Kloppenborg
02:52 Presentation - Rob Zellem
48:53 Q&As
1:08:45 Closing announcements
*✩ Interested in attending a live AAVSO webinar on Zoom?* Visit aavso.org/webinars to view our schedule and register for upcoming events.
Join Dr. Rob Zellem (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) as he talks about NASA's Pandora SmallSat mission, which is scheduled to launch no earlier than Fall 2025 and will monitor up to 20 transiting exoplanets and their host stars to disentangle stellar activity from the planet's atmospheric signal. Pandora's efforts will help enhance the science returns of NASA missions like Hubble and JWST. He will also present how citizen scientists and amateur astronomers can become involved and already are directly contributing to the Pandora mission and other NASA efforts.
*Timestamps:*
00:00 Opening announcements
02:26 Introduction - Brian Kloppenborg
02:52 Presentation - Rob Zellem
48:53 Q&As
1:08:45 Closing announcements
*✩ Interested in attending a live AAVSO webinar on Zoom?* Visit aavso.org/webinars to view our schedule and register for upcoming events.
![AAVSO How to [Python! The basics]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7eMTgQuKGHA/mqdefault.jpg "AAVSO How to [Python! The basics]
Instructor: Lauren Herrington
This instruction is intended for people who have already installed Python: you can find a step-by-step guide to installing Python at the top of AAVSOs preparatory guide, Introduction to Basic Python: https://www.aavso.org/sites/default/files/AAVSO%20pdfs/AAVSO_Introduction_Python.pdf
2) We also recommend skimming through our preparatory guide (url is above).
Webinar description: An interactive session all about how to use Python for astronomy! Well start by reviewing the very basics of Python, from variables to functions. Next, well cover simple usage of a few of the most popular packages for doing astronomy with Python, including live demonstrations of how to manipulate data using Astropy, make beautiful graphs using Matplotlib, and data mine massive remote datasets using Astroquery. This How to Python! session will feature even more interactivity than a typical How to Session, as our instructor, Lauren Herrington, will be taking questions throughout. As the first of three webinars in the AAVSOs How to Python! webinar series, this webinar will set the stage for broadcasts to follow on the topics of asteroseismology and stellar evolution models. Dont miss it!
Interested in participating in the live How-to sessions? aavso.org/2022-how-to-hours")
