July 17

Today was one of the more discouraging days of this internship. I am now working to overlay the Far UV, Near UV, and Optical Images of each galaxy. In order to do this, I need to use information from the header to make sure the alignment is exact. In order to use the header the files needed to be saved as FITS files, and I had saved all of my UV images as JPEGs. So I spent the day finding the galaxies in the big UV FITS files and saving the desired galaxies as FITS files, instead of JPEGs. Unfortunately, after hours of re-finding and reformatting galaxies, I realized that once you change a FITS file in any way shape or form, you lose the valuable information in the header. So basically, I spent the entire today doing something that did absolutely nothing to help get my work done. Tomorrow I will start in just about the same spot I started today, except with the knowledge that saving all the galaxies as reformatted FITS files is a terrible waste of time!!! Oh yeah, the word on the board from this morning ASTORIA which has some relevance to Carlson, the scientist for which this building is named for. But beyond that I am not really sure what it means, but it is on a plaque in the front lobby, so it must mean something.