Tips and tricks

Whether you are an astronomy enthusiast, an amateur astronomer, a student, or a researcher - you might find something useful here. This is a collection of various helpful tips and resources that I have found around the web (or created), grouped by categories:

Research

The article I recommend most strongly to students about to enter research is Richard Hamming's You and Your Research. You can also see the talk on youtube.

Advice for researchers:

Matthew Kenworthy has great tips for professionals, including making web pages, backing up data, an bring professional: https://kenworthy.space/advice/

Amateur-friendly serious astronomy

Want to do photometry on data? Check out APT and AstroImageJ - both are tools with an easy graphical interface, and are useful for professionals too.
I have made a tutorial on DSLR photometry with APT with the ASI public outreach committee.
Make RGB images automatically from three filter fits images: Trilogy software

Writing Email:

Matt Might has some handy guidelines on writing email.