Log of major tutorial updates#
For a log of updates to the tutorial notebooks, see also the GitHub pull request history for the tutorial-notebooks repository.
2026-11-03#
Update to notebook 202.1 which demonstrates saving a deep_coadd image to FITS file.
2026-11-02#
Released a new Notebook tutorial, 103.12, demonstrating how to write a deep_coadd image to a
FITS file and read it back, using both the LSST Science Pipelines tools and astropy.
2026-10-29#
Released a new Notebook tutorial, 302.4, demonstrating faint high proper motion source selection.
2026-10-28#
Released a new Notebook tutorial series, 209, on catalog flags, starting with 209.1 on the Object table flags.
2026-10-26#
Corrected notebook 303.2, “Galaxy shapes in DP2”, for a known issue in which Sersic and exponential effective radius measurements in the Object table were too small by a factor of 2 ln 2.
2026-10-23#
Released a new Notebook tutorial, 206.2, demonstrating use and access of deblender footprints.
2026-10-20#
Released a new Notebook tutorial, 201.17, demonstrating the visit_summary butler dataset.
Released a new Notebook tutorial demonstrating how to manipulate figures with the plotly package.
Updated seven notebook tutorials (103.4, 103.5, 202.1, 202.5, 309.1, 309.2, and 309.3) to use the DP2 mask plane names directly.
2026-10-16#
Released a new Notebook tutorial demonstrating DiaObject cross-match.
2026-10-13#
Released a Portal tutorial demonstrating how to save portal visualizations as JSON files.
2026-10-06#
Released five DP2 Portal series 105 tutorials demonstrating how to interact with images in the image search results interface.
2026-10-06#
Released a new Portal tutorial, 303.1 “Compare photometry types for galaxies in a DP2 field”.
2026-10-05#
Released two new notebooks on cosmology.
2026-10-05#
Released the DP2 Portal 304 tutorial on cosmology, identifying the red sequence of the galaxy cluster PSZ2 G309.43-72.86.
2026-09-21#
Released two new notebooks about multi-coadd cutouts and custom color images.
2026-09-20#
Released new notebook tutorials about low surface brightness science.
2026-09-17#
Released a new Portal tutorial, 303.2 “Explore galaxy shapes in a DP2 field”.
2026-09-16#
Released a notebook tutorial demonstrating filter transformations between DP2 and other photometric systems.
2026-09-15#
Released a notebook tutorial demonstrating how to use the skyMap.
2026-09-09#
Released a new notebook tutorial illustrating the pixel mask planes of DP2 deep coadd images.
2026-09-07#
Released the DP2 Portal 102 series, “Queries with the UI”: query for catalog data, and query for images with SIAv2 and with ObsTAP.
2026-09-04#
Released new notebook tutorials about galaxy photometry and galaxy color selections.
2026-08-21#
Released new notebook tutorial about the deep_coadd_input_summary table.
2026-08-20#
Released new notebook tutorial about galaxy shapes.
2026-06-09#
Updated the LSSTCam focal plane tutorial to mark the bad detector.
2026-05-01#
Updated the DP2 visits and tracts metadata tutorial to include preliminary image quality parameters.
2026-04-15#
Released a new notebook tutorial to visualize DP2 visits and tracts metadata.
2026-04-03#
Released a new notebook tutorial demonstrating how to visualize the LSSTCam focal plane.