Talk:Joey Romero

Nice job Joey, have you figured out how to put words next to images or was that just a surprise? I haven't figured it out yet, like I don't know how to put an image off to the right of a column of words, but if you look in the discussion on Rebecca's page I put a pretty heart in the middle of a sentence! Here, I'll give you a !! Make sure you sign your comments --Piper 21:19, 30 May 2010 (PDT)
Hi Mrs. P! Uhh I think the words to the side was just a fluke. Sorry! But I've added more to my page, and there's still that huge white space under my first graph. We both tried, and I can't figure out why that one didn't work and the second one did! Oh well, I hope you have fun with your Grand Canyon excursions!
P.S. I like the star better than the heart anyway!
P.S.S. What was that website we went to in astronomy where they gave us a picture with a lot of stars and galaxies and stuff and if you clicked on one it told you what it was? That would be a cool link to put on my page because that was really awesome. --Romero 14:53, 31 May 2010 (PDT)

Very nice, I always say embrace your nerdiness! I think the white space has something to do with how we save and crop things in paint. maybe we should be just plain old saving the graph as a jpg or whatever w/o using paint, I bet there's a way? Love the Galaxy Zoo link, the other one I think you are thinking of is SDSS. Go to SDSS.org and try to get to navigation tool. instructions are somewhere on my moodle if you can't figure it out by playing around. If that's not the site you're thinking of, look around on the moodle and you might find it. You can get to my moodle thru teacher websites at LWN.--Piper 16:47, 31 May 2010 (PDT)
Yep! SDSS was what I was thinking of. Are there any other things I gotta do?--Romero 09:46, 1 June 2010 (PDT)

Hello Joey, This is Mr. DeCoster, one of the other teachers. I work with Ms. Piper on NITARP and am amazed at how she picks up this Wiki stuff. I also work with her at YERKES and the ARCS program. I am practicing leaving a comment. I also tried to start my "student" page at Niles West part of Wiki that you are certainly welcome to comment on.

LOVE the additional images, are you really going to have a ponytail? Looks good to me. Other than commenting on any new comments you get, or commenting on other pages as they evolve, you are good. What do you think we should discuss, work on next week? --Peggy Piper 11:12, 1 June 2010 (PDT)

Nice pic! Just went to East's graduation, now packing for G.C. leaving early a.m.--Peggy Piper 18:41, 1 June 2010 (PDT)

Thanks Mrs. P! I hope you enjoy the Grand Canyon! And as for the previous message, I think what we need to get more in depth with the Spitzer itself. And as I'm typing this, I just realized I haven't looked at the DVD you gave us (it's sitting right next to me). Lol so maybe that'll help a little. Other than that, I don't remember what was on that list of things to do before Cali. --Joey Romero 20:14, 1 June 2010 (PDT)

Okay everyone, I'm gonna be gone till Saturday; I'm going to Vet Camp at Purdue! And there's no computers for use, so I can't check anything (I'm not even supposed to bring my cell phone! Yeah right!). Hope everyone's summers are going well! Cya on Saturday! :) --Joey Romero 09:22, 13 June 2010 (PDT)

You don't seem old enough to be a Vet, which war were you in? I'm just back, and I was going to suggest we start talking about what is Spitzer, maybe we'll start that and put together tips on using wiki. Have fun at camp!! --Peggy Piper 09:29, 13 June 2010 (PDT)

I'm back! :) Camp was super fun. Now let's start up some astronomy! --Joey Romero 18:31, 19 June 2010 (PDT)

Hi Joey, This is Mr. DeCoster at Niles West. I'm trying to just do some of the stuff we're to do with the Wiki, so this is my attempt to post a comment. Nice that you are doing so well! I guess this is supposed to be at the bottom-I'll see if I can move it there. --Decoster 20:28, 19 June 2010 (PDT)

Welcome back Joey! I have some squirrel questions for you, but they'll have to wait. See if you can rally up Rebecca and Justin to get back to this whole astronomy thing!

Welcome to you as well Mr. Decoster! --Peggy Piper 08:19, 20 June 2010 (PDT)

HEYYY!!! IM HEREE!!! (: --Rebecca Ann Rosignolo (: 18:56, 20 June 2010 (PDT)

Hello Joey, This is Mr. DeCoster, one of the other teachers. I work with Ms. Piper on NITARP and am amazed at how she picks up this Wiki stuff. I also work with her at YERKES and the ARCS program. I am practicing leaving a comment. I also tried to start my "student" page at Niles West part of Wiki that you are certainly welcome to comment on. I'm just copy/pasting this message to you guys to see if it works. I really liked your last image-that was one of the beasts from Science Olympiad a few years back. What is it? It's in Monceros[sp?]? And per the above Heyyy from Rebecca-I am trying to comment on your page as well. I am not so good at this. --Richard DeCoster 12:06, 21 June 2010 (PDT)

Very "cool" EM Spectrum pic. If you think of each of those blue bars as a channel, kinda like your radio or tv, they tune into a particular frequency (or wavelength) of EM radiation. Each channel on the Spitzer "tunes" in to a particular wavelength. Like our color filters in class only let thru a certain color (wavelength/frequency) of light. The longer the wavelength, the lower the frequency and the further away from visible red light (infra red = below red). They had to cool the Spitzer down to be able to "see" clearly w/o its own heat (infrared radiation) getting in the way. Hows that for a rambling answer?--Peggy Piper 15:03, 7 July 2010 (PDT)

I think I get it now. So each channel catches different images b/c of the wavelength change? If so, then I think that's shown by the second picture I added today. --Joey Romero 18:34, 7 July 2010 (PDT)

Excellent! For the IRAS, think of the emission spectra you've seen in graph form, where there are peaks for the different elements, if you go to SDSS they explain these type of spectra in the tutorial. So where would the Hubble and Chandra images lie on the spectrum you showed up above? This is great stuff, I think you should copy and past it all to the Summer Discussion Page under IR channels or make a new one!--Peggy Piper 18:46, 7 July 2010 (PDT)

The Chandra detects X-rays, so it covers the lowest wavelength/highest frequency images. Then if the Hubble can detect in the UV, visible, and near-infrared ranges, it basically sees everything between the Chandra and the Spitzer. And the Spitzer finishes it off at infrared with the highest wavelength/lowest frequency images. Side note: are there any telescopes that see in the gamma ray range or in the microwave/radio wave ranges? And also, do you want me to just put the spectrum stuff on the IR Channel page or also the images below it? B/c if the images go up, I should probably make them smaller. For now, I'll just put a link up. --Joey Romero 11:13, 8 July 2010 (PDT)

Yep, there are gamma ray telescopes both on the ground and in space, there are radio and microwave telescopes, but I think they're all on the ground. So we have the capability of seeing the whole spectrum, but just not with the same telescope. Think about the fact that you need a shiny mirror to see visible light, but to see radio waves you'll see rough or open structures with space between them almost like trusses. To radio waves, these open structures are "shiney" because of their longer wavelength.--Peggy Piper 17:46, 8 July 2010 (PDT)