A Series of Tutorials for analyzing high-resolution optical spectra

Topics:

• Opening fits files and headers of reduced spectra and wavelength solutions (see https://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/io/fits/ to get started)
• Opening and understanding raw spectra (bias, trace, dispersion vs cross-dispersion direction), sky projection
• Normalization and blaze function removal
• Identifying sky emission lines, equilibrium(photospheric) features vs non-equilibrium features.
• Signal to noise estimates from both raw and reduced spectra.

Resources:

• Handbook of CCD Astronomy