Tutorials

The Community Science Team generates and maintains user-facing tutorials that demonstrate how to access and analyze Rubin data products in the Rubin Science Platform (RSP) using Rubin's data services, tools, and pipelines. These tutorials adhere to the scope and standards defined by Rubin's Guidelines for User Tutorials (RTN-045).

Where to find Rubin tutorials - Executable tutorial notebooks are available in the Notebook Aspect of the RSP: log in and select one from the "Tutorials" drop-down menu. Tutorials for all RSP aspects can be found in the associated technical documentation for each data release: click the button bar below for the list of recent data releases and links to their documentation.

Contributing tutorials - Contact the CST lead or make a new topic in the Rubin Community Forum’s Support category, but see also the options for user-generated tutorials below.

Citing tutorials - NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory (2025); Rubin Observatory LSST Tutorials; doi.org/10.11578/rubin/dc.20250909.20.

User-generated tutorials

Everyone is welcome to generate and host their own tutorials that use Rubin data.

For example, tutorials that apply third-party (non-Rubin) software to Rubin data are best generated and maintained by the software developers. Educators may want to create and share tutorials that teach astronomy basics, for use in undergraduate classrooms or labs. These types of tutorials are beyond the scope defined by Rubin's Guidelines for User Tutorials (RTN-045). They are best hosted by their developers in, e.g., publicly accessible GitHub repositories.

To add your repository to the list below, please contact the CST lead or make a new topic in the Rubin Community Forum’s Support category.

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Can't find something?

Questions and comments are welcome in the Support category of the Rubin Community Forum.