Just a thought, is it possible to change iPad color from black to white?
SDSS
Written By: Jonathan Flores
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Jul•
22•13
Amazing work day! I learned how to gather data from famous places. I had professor York’s favorite galaxy! I really can’t wait for tomorrow!
Day Six
Written By: Sydney Ford
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Jul•
22•13
Today we have started to gather data for our projects. We will be bringing our findings together to see what we have found, as a group.
Collecting Data
Written By: Lena Sarhan
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Jul•
22•13
Today Professor York spoke with us about galaxies. He explained how we can use the SDSS data. I collected data from some galaxies, such as the type, the coordinates, and red shift.
Cluster Image#24
Written By: Jessica Mendoza
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Jul•
22•13
Today Professor York introduced us to galaxies. We now have to look at some galaxies and find their characteristics like their Coordinate, petroRad_r, ModelMag_r, Z(redshift), zErr.
The second week
Written By: Tho Nguyen
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Jul•
22•13
After listening professor York’s lecture at the beginning of the course, we collect astronomical info with very complicated number and measurement, which is interesting.
SDSS Galaxy Data Entry FORM
Written By: Mitch Marks
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Jul•
22•13
Our Spectroscope
Written By: Jessica Mendoza
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Jul•
19•13
I have no words to explain what I learn today! Thanks to Harvey Moseley for talking to us today about X-ray Tools!
Have a great weekend everybody and I’ll see you guys Monday
Success
Written By: Jonathan Flores
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Jul•
19•13
Another amazing day! Great presentation through Skype. We built our own Spectroscopes and I was able to capture an image of what it does.
Day Five
Written By: Sydney Ford
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Jul•
19•13
We had a conversation on X-rays with Harvey Moseley.
We also made spectroscopes!
Wave to Saturn
Written By: Christie Thomas
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Jul•
19•13
The Cassini spacecraft will be taking a picture of Earth through the rings of Saturn at 4:27 PM today. Say cheese and smile between 4:27 and 4:42.
More information about this event is available on the NASA website:
The First Interplanetary Photobomb
Following up on Dieter’s Talk
Written By: Julia Brazas
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Jul•
18•13
You may find these enlightening, given Dieter’s talk today:
Stirling Colgate tells the story of how his hunch about supernovas shaped both the future of gamma ray astronomy — and world peace.
Neil Gehrels explains how he went from making music to building the detectors that give us our first alert to the most explosive events in the universe.