7/22/09

Help From Above!!

So today I met with Professor Robinson to get my new mission. I now have to do optical spectroscopy of galaxies to understand more about the central engine. I first have to change all this data into something I can work with and plot to make it nice. After my meeting with Robinson we went to Java's and I asked Chris to help me with the program to open the files in IDL. I had about 25 files to open each ranging about [6,1000] which is a terrible amount of data to do anything with so I had to use IDL. We had a meeting with Stephie and Jake today also which was very long and I ended up becoming very tired. So the program that was suppose to help me ended up not even working on my computer even though it was the same as Chris' and Jeff's. I was instructed to go visit Jake, who was in a 'meeting' with Greg, so instead I walked by Katie Montenegro's 'office' and was then instructed to go to Paul who lives on the second floor. So we went up to Paul who greatly helped with my conundrum and we ended up writing an entirely new program that would do all the calculations and then put it into a new file. So Paul was a great help and highly recommended if you have any program needs with IDL.

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