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Jan. 17th, 2012 08:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccastareyesYou know, I should update this.
Sunday was the cooking day from Hell; I was making stuffed peppers, but forgot that when I made a delicious chicken-pot pie last week, it leaked all over the bottom of my oven. Until I noticed my apartment filling with smoke. And that my smoke detector doesn't work -- good when trying to clear out apartments filled with smoke, bad when you consider I might have started a fire. (Do not tell my mother this.)
(The stuffed pepper filling was pre-cooked and I don't mind raw/warm peppers, so I ate them half-done.)
There was also a worm in one of the peppers: I did notice this before doing anything beyond washing them, so I could throw it away. But yeah.
Monday was better, even if I had to clean my oven.
That and we had a research group meeting. Between Researcher who is with our group for paperwork purposes, but lives in Arizona and Other Professor who is on sabbatical in British Columbia (IIRC), we had a group meeting with five people and two iMacs with Skype. Next week, my adviser is gone to Massachusetts, so we suggested another iMac. Our goal is apparently to never have to meet in person again.
Today was cold and rainy so I worked from home. Someone asked my adviser 'hey, can we do X with Cassini' and since it involved the boresight*, Phil gave it to me since I know the data of (looking at the Sun through the boresight with VIMS) better than nearly anyone.
Unfortunately my answer is '... Maybe'. Which is an irritating answer, but I'm not sure if we can do better -- basically, I found I'd get a marginal detection if we averaged a lot of observations (80-some), and I don't know if averaging more data would help. I was able to get an answer as to how we'd have to do the observation if we wanted to do it, though.
And typing this out gave me another idea to try. Yay.
* Basically a hole in the spacecraft with a bunch of filters and mirrors in front of it so two of our spectrometers can be pointed at the Sun without breaking and/or melting things. Seriously the spacecraft software sends up all kinds of red flags and alerts if you even think about pointing the main camera near the sun, even if it's just on the way to something else.
Sunday was the cooking day from Hell; I was making stuffed peppers, but forgot that when I made a delicious chicken-pot pie last week, it leaked all over the bottom of my oven. Until I noticed my apartment filling with smoke. And that my smoke detector doesn't work -- good when trying to clear out apartments filled with smoke, bad when you consider I might have started a fire. (Do not tell my mother this.)
(The stuffed pepper filling was pre-cooked and I don't mind raw/warm peppers, so I ate them half-done.)
There was also a worm in one of the peppers: I did notice this before doing anything beyond washing them, so I could throw it away. But yeah.
Monday was better, even if I had to clean my oven.
That and we had a research group meeting. Between Researcher who is with our group for paperwork purposes, but lives in Arizona and Other Professor who is on sabbatical in British Columbia (IIRC), we had a group meeting with five people and two iMacs with Skype. Next week, my adviser is gone to Massachusetts, so we suggested another iMac. Our goal is apparently to never have to meet in person again.
Today was cold and rainy so I worked from home. Someone asked my adviser 'hey, can we do X with Cassini' and since it involved the boresight*, Phil gave it to me since I know the data of (looking at the Sun through the boresight with VIMS) better than nearly anyone.
Unfortunately my answer is '... Maybe'. Which is an irritating answer, but I'm not sure if we can do better -- basically, I found I'd get a marginal detection if we averaged a lot of observations (80-some), and I don't know if averaging more data would help. I was able to get an answer as to how we'd have to do the observation if we wanted to do it, though.
And typing this out gave me another idea to try. Yay.
* Basically a hole in the spacecraft with a bunch of filters and mirrors in front of it so two of our spectrometers can be pointed at the Sun without breaking and/or melting things. Seriously the spacecraft software sends up all kinds of red flags and alerts if you even think about pointing the main camera near the sun, even if it's just on the way to something else.
