Mary Oksala
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September 2007
24
We met this morning to clear up the responsibilities of everyone at the Hawaii meeting. I am making a wiki page to show who will be writing which talks. I am also starting to go through the literature to find all the archival data for Sigma Ori E.
25
I am continuing to print out papers in the literature about Sigma Ori E. Also, I plan to take my initial IAU250 wiki page and change it to table form as Rich suggested.
October 2007
10
I have been working on the summaries for the Hawaii meeting, but am having some trouble matching talk topics with the authors' work. I have also printed out what I believe to be a complete set of papers on σ Ori E and am using the page on the wiki that I made to write summaries of the results of each of these papers.
14
I spent this weekend working on the summaries for the Hawaii meeting, writing wiki summaries for σ Ori E (only 6-7 left!), transposing some magnetic data for Rich, and walking 5 long miles for Breast Cancer. My feet hurt. I will add a journal date column for the σ Ori E page when I get a chance.
November 2007
8
I am sitting in Hawaii not observing because it is cloudy! Hopefully the clouds will move out tomorrow. I have been traveling the last few days and acclimating to the altitude. Today we went up to the summit (it's seriously 0 degrees C up there) to attach the CCD camera to the 0.6m telescope currently operated by UH. Ironically enough, Margaret Hanson is up here as well and I asked her to send me a talk that she had given about her topic for Hawaii. So, I have read the slides and will update the IAU 250 wiki page with more details about her talk. I plan on working on my term paper for Stan's class when I have time and also work on the new project that will be the subject of my Space grant symposium poster as well as my poster for Hawaii.
10
So we are now on our fourth night of observing (we actually went up later on the 8th) and it seems to be going pretty well. I am learning a lot about telescopes themselves simply because this telescope dies not have any automatic or digital features since it is the original telescope on Mauna Kea from 1969. We are using a 1024x1024 CCD binned by 2 so we are reading out 512x512 pixels per image. Each image has an exposure time of 10 seconds and images are taken continuously. We only need to occasionally adjust the tracking and move the dome since it does not track by itself. I also have been finding sources and reading for my term paper and have changed the linestyles on my graphs for the posters. I need to try to fit the graphs with sine curves. Also, Rich said something about doing maps, but I will have to ask him about that.
