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Wed, 08/20/2008 - 19:14 — Marlena

This was my first time doing this type of research and at first I was a little overwhelmed with processing data. But with my helpful partner, Sam, I was a pro in no time. Well, I understood it. One of my favorite steps when looking at these images taken from all sorts of different telescopes was the aperture slice function. You would have to line up the "X slice" and the "Y slice needed to be lined up in order to make accurate data. After a while, Becca and I started showing eachother our perfect aperture slice graphs in pride.
 


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Open Ended...

Sat, 08/16/2008 - 09:41 — dornm08

Our trip in California ended with us learning how to retrieve data using Leopard. This program is specifically used to get Spitzer data. We may use this in the future to find available data and preform our own projects with it. After the group saved photometric data on the galaxy we observed as well as neighboring stars of (hopefully) steady brightness using APT (Astronomy Photometry Tool), we imported the .txt files that were created into excel. This is where we left off at Caltech, but out project doesn't end there. Those steps were just the beginning.


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Griffith Observatory

Thu, 08/14/2008 - 11:04 — Larkinl08

Saturday night, we decided to go to the local planetarium: Griffith Observatory.

GriffithGriffith Observatory


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CalTech

Thu, 08/14/2008 - 10:41 — Larkinl08


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Active Galaxy!

Thu, 08/14/2008 - 10:26 — Larkinl08

Saturday was our first day of science research. The first day, we learned about the topic we are going to be doing research with. We're doing research on a specific type of galaxy, called an active galaxy, or AGN for short (standing for active galactic nuclei). Before I go into details about what we did with the AGNs, I would like to explain breifly what an AGN is.


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Spitzer

Tue, 08/12/2008 - 19:07 — Marlena

Now that I finally have a blog up and running, I can tell about our
trip. I went into this trip knowing I was going to do research on the
AGN, NGC 40-51 and thats it. There wasn't much of an itinerary but it
makes sense now why this is so. Research is not strictly planned. It's
something you develop along the way. Along with the Spitzer project, we
visited JPL (Jet Propulsion Labortory). This half a day trip was very
exciting to all of us. We some the "Clean Room." This is where the
rovers are built that they send to mars. We saw Mission Control Room as


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Jet Propulsion Lab Tour

Mon, 08/11/2008 - 17:36 — dornm08

Mars RoverMars Rover


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Busy Busy

Mon, 08/11/2008 - 00:50 — dornm08


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California

Sun, 08/10/2008 - 01:19 — Larkinl08

We've been in California for two days, and we're still adjusting to
the time difference. However, today was the first day we spent doing
science-like things. Yesterday was more of a day spent relaxing (after
our flights). We went to CalTech University, right here in Pasadena, to
learn about the project we will be working on with the Spitzer Space Program. Unfortunately, my
pictures are ...annoying...and are choosing to not upload tonight.
BUT!! I will be updating tomorrow with pictures and information on the
really cool astronomy topics we are learning about; as will the other


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ATLAS

Tue, 04/08/2008 - 10:39 — jparadis


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