Tuesday July 19
- 20 meter lesson:
- Quick example of how to use 20 meter telescope, using skynet
- Behind the Plots:
- Saw how the system, PREST0, created the plots and what kind of math that the systems use to determine it. (lots of calculus)
- Outdoor Recreation:
- SO FUN! Almost caught a minnow and one of the mentors caught one
- Human Knot
- Team building exercise really fun, all grab hands of people and crossed arms creating human knot and had to untie human knot
- Research project:
- Started research project in teams, just entered some info into skynet
- Skynet is a website where someone can enter something into the website for the 20 meter telescope to track and then the 20 meter telescope will track the object that was requested once it is in the range of the telescope
- Started research project in teams, just entered some info into skynet
- Passed test 2!!:
- There are 2 tests everyone needs to pass before the site will allow you to see pulsar data and tonight I passed the second test and can now see pulsar data!