Today was our first day without any real supervision. When I woke up this morning, my advisor still hadn't replied to my Email asking whether I should continue using IRAF to reduce data, or if I should do as Dr. Sandquist recommended and use a stand alone program known as DAOPHOT. So I spent my morning continuing to read journal articles on the cluster in question.
After lunch, my advisor had finally relplied and told me to go with DAOPHOT. So I headed over to the astronomy building to find Dr. Sandquist. He photocopied the ~80 page manual for DAOPHOT and pointed out several sections I should become familiar with.
Once I got a binder to keep this rather large stack of papers in, I headed back to my room and read until dinner.
We learned at dinner that our tower is also being used by a cheerleading camp. Oh joy. The dining hall was filled with scores of chatty teens. Ew.
After dinner, four of us played some foosball and pool in the tower's game room. I managed to remain undefeated in foosball (3 team games and 1 solo 1v1), and won at pool (although only because my opponent put the 8-ball in the wrong pocket).
Once that was finished, I headed back to my room and did some more reading. About 9:00, I finally grew tired of that and played around on the internet for the rest of the night.
Tomorrow I'll hopefully be knowledgeable enough about this program to start processing data.
Thursday, June 22, 2006
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