Day 9

This morning Bob Callens gave us the letters "I S O T A R A" and told us that it was a scrambled word that we needed to write about in our blog. Before we even separated and went to our separate labs Gary, another intern, unscrambled it, the word was Astoria. When we got to the astronomical lab, us interns were looking Astoria up online. The most we found was that it was indeed a city in Oregon and New York. I also discovered that the Museum of the Moving Image is located in Astoria, New York. I took a quick walk around the first floor, the floor my lab is on, and happened to be distracted by the name Astoria. It turns out the dedication plaque for the building has an image of Chester F. Carlson, the man whom for the Science Imaging building is named, holding what looks like a piece of paper that says "10.22.-38 Astoria." I realized just before writing this blog that in actuality I do not know why Astoria is significant, possibly because Carlson may have been from Astoria, I'm not sure. However, Carlson is a significant figure because he invented xerography, from his discovery and dedication he influenced the world of Imaging Science.

Today in my lab I did not get a whole lot done only because the process I was using wasn't working in the IDL program. Most of my time was spent guessing and checking different possible ways to resize my UV images to be the same size as my infrared ones. When I finally got it to work, they looked nothing alike. By the end of the day Jake helped Kevin and I out a bit by telling us how to use another program called HASTROM. Kevin knows how to use it better than I do right now but I'm hoping to catch on tomorrow when we actually have time to work on it straight through because we can't save it until we're done. I taught Basma how to put color into her images as well since Kevin was working on the HASTROM program, I think his job was harder, but Basma was able to make her different images colorful and save them together alright. It's kind of nice that we're all working on some of the same things, but most of the time we're working something that someone else was working on yesterday so we're always asking each other questions. Not necessarily a bad thing but I do feel kind of bad because I was bothering Tom a lot because I did not completely understand how to use the congrid process to magnify my image in IDL. Hope tomorrow isn't too difficult, Hey, by the way, Kevin just got one of his images all compiled!!! YAY! that means that the sun is slowly coming out and I might be able to actually get some work completed that means something tomorrow. Until then.