Day 18

August 1, 2012

I looked for a platypus. I couldn't find it. YAY.

Day 17

July 31, 2012

Things actually made sense today.... I finally got caught up on my research journal, ALL equations and data and pictures and links to URLs FINALLY work like they should. I also debugged my program in IDL, so that it no longer tells me everything I do is WRONG. Then I ran the program and made sure that all of the data was doing what it was supposed to. And it did!! WOOOOOOOO!!!!

Day 16

July 30, 2012

Today I spent the day getting caught up on my research journal and fixing it. How fun. I also tried to do the weekly intern challenge. It's going great. 

Day 15

July 27, 2012

Today I ran a code to fit a gaussian to an absorption line in the continuum of NGC1386. I also finally AND correctly fixed the orientation of the acquisition image, after a week of trying. 


In far more exciting news, I am awesome at team-building volleyball.

Day 14

July 26, 2012

I suppose that technically I'm lucky... I mean, I get to experience the problems of an astronomer first hand... many years before most people do. APPARENTLY I was wrong about actually fixing the orientation of the image yesterday, I just wrote out the image with the wrong header file, so it LOOKED like it was right. So after a LOT of help from Dmitry I finally understood what I was supposed to be doing. Then I got some more help from Dr. Richardson. He showed me a package of programs that I could use to rotate the image, so that it's rotated like it should be. of course, this was after I downloaded a huge package for one program that turned out to be the wrong one. Naturally.

Day 13

July 25, 2012

Today I finished the code to flip and fix the orientation of the acquisition image. I also FAILED at the current intern challenge for this week, but had a ridiculous amount of fun doing it. My partner this week is Brennan, and let's just say, it's a good thing he can (sort of, and slowly) read Greek... it was cool getting to know him, and hilarious to listen to him reading (jk, Brennan you're awesome), as Tyler sat there and giggled like a 2 year old. All in all, a pretty good day. Except for Tyler's giggles. Those were creepy.

Day 12

July 24, 2012

Today I FINALLY fixed the header file of the acquisition image in IDL after many, many, MANY attempts at doing it, several different ways after several hours of research. Now, if I could just figure out how all these other thingies work....