Day 10

Well, this is the end of my second week as an intern. Honestly, I can say that I'm exhausted! between trying to find time in the morning to run a few miles before coming in to work and then working for 8 hours everyday is not an easy task. So today, Kevin taught Tom and I how to set the headers of the UV data and the Infrared data to each other. It was so much easier than what I was trying to do yesterday, the Hastrom program sets both images to the same resolution, the same size, and rotates them so that they all match up perfectly. I finished the 11 images that I had but unfortunately, because the images are really close up to the galaxy the pixels are a little fuzzy and the images aren't that great. Brad, one of the undergrads, joked saying that it was great modern art. He's right, that's kind of what it looks like, if you don't believe me check it out for yourself:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28479835@N05/sets/72157606241957031/

Anyways, when I showed Jake what happened he said that I should try going online and find the optical images of the galaxies instead of the infrared. He wants me to keep the Infrared/UV images up on Flickr but he really wants me to try to do the same thing with the optical images instead of the Infrared. I haven't downloaded any of the images yet but I can do that next week and hopefully start the process all over again with little problems in IDL. I also helped Zach, a pre-freshman who just started working in the lab earlier this week, he needed a couple folders with information that would allow him to use IDL and he also needed Basma's images that she's been working on so we transferred those as well. A downfall of the day was that we didn't have a team-building activity today, it was supposed to be Ultimate Frisbee, but they are using the "Ultimate Frisbee" field as a construction site at the moment. Oh and Bob Callens talked to Kevin about how long we work because I guess we went over 40 hours (I didn't because I left early on Friday, but I guess I'll have over 40 hours this week). The internship program only has enough money to fund us interns to work 40 hours a week and nothing more, Bob is going to talk to Jake about having our 5 o'clock meeting sooner so we can leave earlier (therefore not exceeding 40 hours). The interns in the other labs leave earlier than we do most of the time, no wonder we went over 40 hours... Well, I guess we'll have to see what happens next week.

Oh and thank-you Bob for bringing in the doughnuts again.