Fourth Day

As the fourth day comes to a close I must tell you of the activity that we did this morning because I was asked to write about what happened. During our 8:45 morning staff meeting we were asked to sit in a dark room and let our eyes get accustomed to the light for a few minutes and then we were asked to try to walk around the table in the middle of the room. Honestly, it was kind of difficult only because my eyes hadn't necessarily gotten accustomed to having no light, I ran into a few chairs. We were then asked to walk out of the room and around the 2nd floor with one eye covered and the other uncovered. After this, we were then told to go back into the dark room and asked to look out of both eyes and walk around the same table as earlier. While walking around I noticed that the eye I had covered while out in the hallway was able to assist me in the dark room because it was so dilated and the other eye was unable to see anything at all. It a strange feeling because the pupil of the eye that was uncovered contracted, letting in less light, while we were out in the hallway so that when we were in the dark room again all I saw was blackness. Our eyes adjust to the light settings around us so that we can see clearly, or as clearly as possible.

So on to the rest of my day, since all of my files finished copying I was finally able to work on putting color into the images of galaxies. The problem I had from yesterday with being able to save was a challenge for most of the day. We figured out relatively what the idl command was supposed to look like to save a color jpg image but we couldn't figure out exactly how it was supposed to look. After almost 3 hours we caved and asked Jake, my boss, and he told us the configuration of the command. Up until now I was able to finish a little more than half of my images and put them into color. Tomorrow I will be able to finish them and then start whatever else comes next. On to another day...