Tutorials

Important

Early Data Preview 2 data are available. The DP2 tutorials are under development.

Tutorials demonstrating Data access and analysis via the Rubin Science Platform (RSP).

Tutorials are organized to proceed from beginner to advanced skills. Find general information about the RSP’s Portal, Notebook, and API aspects in the RSP User Guides.

Notebook Aspect

• Notebook tutorials
  • 100. How to: RSP functionality
  • 200. Data products definitions
  • 300. Science demonstrations
  • Traducciones al Español

Portal Aspect

• Portal tutorials
  • 100. How to: RSP functionality
  • 200. Data products definitions
  • 300. Science demonstrations

API Aspect

• API tutorials
  • 100. How to: RSP functionality

Contributing

All are welcome to suggest or request a tutorial, or to volunteer to work with the Rubin Community Science team to contribute a tutorial. Everyone is also welcome to generate and host their own sets of tutorials that run on Rubin data, e.g., in their own GitHub repositories.

For details on contributing to the Rubin tutorial set, or on sharing user-generated tutorials, see Rubin’s For Scientists webpage for Tutorials.

Citing

When citing the tutorials please use:

Citation: NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory (2025); Rubin Observatory LSST Tutorials https://doi.org/10.11578/rubin/dc.20250909.20 [BibTeX]

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