Today was pretty decent, work wise. Bryan was very helpful and figured out the remaining UGC galaxies that had yet to be deciphered. I added that new data to the spreadsheet and calculated the area's for the recently discovered galaxies. After lunch I began my new task of adding color to the galaxies, which required learning a new program for IDL (yay). You can either add blue, green, or red to the image. I'm overlaying three wavelengths, such as red, green, and, x-ray, for each galaxy. I'm not exactly sure what wavelengths should be done for each galaxy, I'll check with Jake at the meeting. I also learned to save those newly colored images as j peg images. They'll eventually be up on flickr..
Oh yeah, this morning Bob put up a word scramble on the board during our morning meeting. Unscrambled the word spelled out "Astoria". Our job was to find out what the significance of the word was to RIT. Well we found a plaque that had Carlson (building is named after him) holding something that said Astoria on it...Not entirely sure what the importance of it but i'm assuming it has to do with Carlsons life. In 1938, Carlson "succeeded in obtaining his first 'dry-copy' in Astoria NY" (http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/carlson.htm).
-basma
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