Improve OpenUniverse2024 Firefly visualization tutorial - #379
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I read/ran it through top to bottom, and was able to get everything to run with the make_client(). I left some suggestions for slight changes. The biggest request is to make the text around the firefly startup simpler for those of us who don't know as much about firefly. I understand that firefly might change on Fornax, so not sure what to recommend there since the narrative needs to indicate exactly what to do if running this on Fornax.
The 3-color image is a bit disappointing, in that all three colors show a pretty similar sky. Since the notebook is already quite long, I would suggest we remove that section. If you then want to keep the firefly set_pan(), set_zoom(), and align_images() cell, I think we can apply those above when we have the roman and rubin images side by side in firefly. This isn't a big deal, so if you'd rather leave it, that is fine too.
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| You can pan and zoom around the image display in the Firefly UI. Try zooming out the outlined Roman region and see how it sits within the wider Rubin field around it. |
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| You can pan and zoom around the image display in the Firefly UI. Try zooming out the outlined Roman region and see how it sits within the wider Rubin field around it. | |
| You can pan and zoom around the image display in the Firefly UI. Using the "+" and "-" magnifying glass icons in the upper left of the right-hand Roman image, try zooming out the outlined Roman region and see how it sits within the wider Rubin field around it. |
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This is a bit misleading, you can zoom by using your mouse/trackpad gestures too. Try scrolling up/down or pinching in/out gestures in the image, it will do a more natural zooming than "+", "-" icons. And same for panning you hold and drag. All of this very similar to UX of a Google maps like tool that users are used to.
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You can pan and zoom around the image display using the same controls as Google Maps or similar map apps (scroll/pinch to zoom, drag to pan, or the magnifying glass icons in the upper left).
| You can visualize catalogs interactively with Firefly using [`show_table`](https://caltech-ipac.github.io/firefly_client/api/firefly_client.FireflyClient.html#firefly_client.FireflyClient.show_table). This capability can take many parameters. Here we will simply send our catalog to Firefly so that we can (a) see an interactive table; (b) see this table plotted over the image that we've already sent; and (c) use the GUI to quickly create exploratory plots. See if you can use the GUI to quickly determine approximately how many galaxies cover the Rubin image and what the redshift distribution of these galaxies is. | ||
| You can visualize catalogs interactively with Firefly using [`show_table`](https://caltech-ipac.github.io/firefly_client/api/firefly_client.FireflyClient.html#firefly_client.FireflyClient.show_table). This capability can take many parameters. Here we will simply send our catalog to Firefly so that we can (a) see an interactive table; (b) see this table plotted over the image that we've already sent; and (c) use the GUI to quickly create exploratory plots. See if you can use the GUI to quickly determine approximately how many galaxies cover the Roman exposure and what the redshift distribution of these galaxies is. | ||
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I would put this code in the same cell as the one above which defines ra_bounds, dec_bounds. Then comes the text which describes show_table, then the show_table cell.
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@jkrick I decided not to do this here since the original preview-release tutorial also had same complicated narrative. We have a dedicated issue #310 for this which applies to this tutorial as well as all other tutorials using firefly.
I know the 3-color image is not interesting here but I still left it just to show 3-color image plotting is possible. I'm inclined not to remove it because I remember @vandesai1 specifically asked me to add this to showcase 3-color capability when we developed this tutorial. As for the length, I deliberately added it as the last section so that I can skip it if the walkthrough of the notebook takes longer. |
Improve OpenUniverse2024 Firefly visualization tutorial 8109ac6
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Fixes #377
Note: the diff won't look super helpful so it's better to check "rendering preview".
Please check the new flow of narrative if it makes sense while teaching visualization techniques with Firefly.
Firefly outputs (won't show up in docs preview)
The notebook ran end to end in Fornax and was able to display all the images & catalogs sent to Firefly:
Images in expanded mode:
