Day 7

Remember that trouble I was talking about with resizing the images I got from Karla? Well, it's looking troublesome but I up until now I haven't really gotten to talk to Jake about it. I went to the 1 o'clock meeting where we met Stephanie, who basically manages everything in the astronomical department and her husband, Chris O'Dea who is just as much my boss as Jake is. In the meeting we had to report on what we have been working on and if we came upon any problems to ask about them. I told them how I had been working on overlaying the UV images but was having trouble with the infrared images because the resolution of the two different types of images was not the same. After talking about it I came out just a little more confused about what I was actually supposed to do but I used another program they had suggested and asked Brad, an undergraduate, the best way to learn about the camera that had taken the images. His best advice was to look online and try to find the system and the specific camera that took the images and find the resolution it takes those images at. A few hours of internet meandering and pages of reading later I found that the resolution was .1 arcsec. The resolution of my UV images is 1.5 arcsec. That means that I have a lot of careful resizing to do now... if only I knew how...