https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Romero 2026-04-16T07:21:01Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.34.2 https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Talk:Winter_AAS_Visit_2011&diff=6132 2010-12-31T07:08:35Z

<p>Romero: Created page with 'Wow, I like the sound of free food for the banquet night! :) As for the sessions, the ones I think look good: Monday - 3:40 (Dark Matter/Black Holes), 4:30 (Exoplanets) Tuesd…'</p> <hr /> <div>Wow, I like the sound of free food for the banquet night! :)<br /> <br /> As for the sessions, the ones I think look good: <br /> <br /> Monday - 3:40 (Dark Matter/Black Holes), 4:30 (Exoplanets)<br /> <br /> Tuesday - 3:40 (Pulsars)<br /> <br /> Wednesday - 8:30 A.M. (Black Holes), 3:40 (Stellar Astronomy)<br /> <br /> As for the Exhibit Halls are we going to stop in in between the presentations? Because some of those seem really interesting. And for the Special/Oral Sessions, we may have to choose those as a group because there seem to be a lot of cool ones happening at the same time (if I'm reading the schedule right). --[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 23:08, 30 December 2010 (PST)</div>

Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Talk:Light_Curves_for_Poster&diff=5679 2010-10-20T20:22:15Z

<p>Romero: Created page with 'These look really great, I'm glad we finally are back into the wiki realm with our findings! :) --~~~~'</p> <hr /> <div>These look really great, I'm glad we finally are back into the wiki realm with our findings! :) --[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 13:22, 20 October 2010 (PDT)</div>

Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Talk:Acronyms_and_Vocab_and_Our_Proposal,_Oh_my!!&diff=5211 2010-08-01T21:07:49Z

<p>Romero: </p> <hr /> <div>Good. Mrs. P has been busy, busy. Thank you! I added IRAF just now. The Niles West contigent meets again this evening. We will work on these as well.<br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> Joey's out of town til Sunday, hopefully Rebecca will fill in a few blanks:)--Peggy Piper 13:34, 29 July 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> Nope! :) I got here before her, so I took the easy ones: the acronyms. I didn't elaborate on the ones that were already filled in, however. --[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 14:07, 1 August 2010 (PDT)</div>

Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Acronyms_and_Vocab_and_Our_Proposal,_Oh_my!!&diff=5210 2010-08-01T21:06:07Z

<p>Romero: /* Acronyms and Vocab */</p> <hr /> <div>=== Acronyms and Vocab ===<br /> What do these mean? Here is the start of a list, fill in the answers right next to the words! Add more words/acronyms to the list!&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> Aperture Radius&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Background Annulus&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Julian Day&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Janskys&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Luminosity&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Intensity&lt;BR&gt;<br /> RA and Dec&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Galactic coordinates&lt;BR&gt;<br /> APT - Aperture Photometry Tool&lt;BR&gt;<br /> DS9&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> 2MASS - Two Micron All Sky Survey; the name says a lot, it is a collection of images covering the entire sky at the 2 micron wavelength of infrared. Some of its goals include cataloging all of the detected stars/galaxies and detecting brown dwarf stars.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> SIMBAD - Set of Identifications, Measurements, and Bibliography for Astronomical Data; this is a database of astronomical objects beyond our solar system.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> IRAC - Infrared Array Camera; takes images of the 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, and 8 micron channels of infrared.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> IPAC - Infrared Processing and Analysis Center; the name says exactly what it is, and it's located at CalTech!&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> IRAF - Image Reduction and Analysis Facility; a program for analyzing IR images and data. It reduces images into pixel array form, which I assume means that the pixels can be rearranged somehow into a better format. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> BCD - Basic Calibrated Data&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> === Our Proposal ===<br /> '''Here is the link to our Spring 2010 proposal http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/teacher_research/r4-variab/variabProposal.pdf'''<br /> Read through our proposal. Below, list a few things that you totally understand as well as some questions you have.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;</div>

Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Acronyms_and_Vocab_and_Our_Proposal,_Oh_my!!&diff=5209 2010-08-01T21:05:49Z

<p>Romero: /* Acronyms and Vocab */</p> <hr /> <div>=== Acronyms and Vocab ===<br /> What do these mean? Here is the start of a list, fill in the answers right next to the words! Add more words/acronyms to the list!&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> Aperture Radius&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Background Annulus&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Julian Day&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Janskys&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Luminosity&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Intensity&lt;BR&gt;<br /> RA and Dec&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Galactic coordinates&lt;BR&gt;<br /> APT - Aperture Photometry Tool&lt;BR&gt;<br /> DS9&lt;BR&gt;<br /> 2MASS - Two Micron All Sky Survey; the name says a lot, it is a collection of images covering the entire sky at the 2 micron wavelength of infrared. Some of its goals include cataloging all of the detected stars/galaxies and detecting brown dwarf stars.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> SIMBAD - Set of Identifications, Measurements, and Bibliography for Astronomical Data; this is a database of astronomical objects beyond our solar system.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> IRAC - Infrared Array Camera; takes images of the 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, and 8 micron channels of infrared.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> IPAC - Infrared Processing and Analysis Center; the name says exactly what it is, and it's located at CalTech!&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> IRAF - Image Reduction and Analysis Facility; a program for analyzing IR images and data. It reduces images into pixel array form, which I assume means that the pixels can be rearranged somehow into a better format. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> BCD - Basic Calibrated Data&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> === Our Proposal ===<br /> '''Here is the link to our Spring 2010 proposal http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/teacher_research/r4-variab/variabProposal.pdf'''<br /> Read through our proposal. Below, list a few things that you totally understand as well as some questions you have.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;</div>

Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Acronyms_and_Vocab_and_Our_Proposal,_Oh_my!!&diff=5208 2010-08-01T21:05:13Z

<p>Romero: /* Acronyms and Vocab */</p> <hr /> <div>=== Acronyms and Vocab ===<br /> What do these mean? Here is the start of a list, fill in the answers right next to the words! Add more words/acronyms to the list!&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> Aperture Radius&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Background Annulus&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Julian Day&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Janskys&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Luminosity&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Intensity&lt;BR&gt;<br /> RA and Dec&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Galactic coordinates&lt;BR&gt;<br /> APT - Aperture Photometry Tool&lt;BR&gt;<br /> DS9&lt;BR&gt;<br /> 2MASS - Two Micron All Sky Survey; the name says a lot, it is a collection of images covering the entire sky at the 2 micron wavelength of infrared. Some of its goals include cataloging all of the detected stars/galaxies and detecting brown dwarf stars.&lt;BR&gt;<br /> SIMBAD - Set of Identifications, Measurements, and Bibliography for Astronomical Data; this is a database of astronomical objects beyond our solar system.&lt;BR&gt;<br /> IRAC - Infrared Array Camera; takes images of the 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, and 8 micron channels of infrared.&lt;BR&gt;<br /> IPAC - Infrared Processing and Analysis Center; the name says exactly what it is, and it's located at CalTech!&lt;BR&gt;<br /> IRAF - Image Reduction and Analysis Facility; a program for analyzing IR images and data. It reduces images into pixel array form, which I assume means that the pixels can be rearranged somehow into a better format. &lt;BR&gt;<br /> BCD - Basic Calibrated Data&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> === Our Proposal ===<br /> '''Here is the link to our Spring 2010 proposal http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/teacher_research/r4-variab/variabProposal.pdf'''<br /> Read through our proposal. Below, list a few things that you totally understand as well as some questions you have.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;</div>

Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Variable_Stars&diff=5142 2010-07-25T02:13:00Z

<p>Romero: </p> <hr /> <div>I already had this on my page, but here's the link to make it more easily accessible. Yes, I know it's Wikipedia, but the information is pretty legitimate. And it is a bit long, but even a scan through can get some good points.&lt;BR&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_star Variable Stars on Wikipedia]&lt;BR&gt;<br /> The main points I got out of this are:<br /> # Variable stars are classified as either intrinsic or extrinsic. Intrinsic is when the star itself is pulsating or having some sort of eruptions, causing the change in brightness. Extrinsic is when the star's brightness is blocked by another orbiting star.<br /> # Specifically, I think the ones we've been studying are considered cepheids, or variable stars with shorter periods like days or months and their variation isn't very varying (say that five times fast! The site calls their luminosities &quot;regular.&quot;)<br /> # Helium is the main cause of cepheids' fluctuations. Ionization, to be exact; gotta love chemistry.<br /> --[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 19:12, 24 July 2010 (PDT)</div>

Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Variable_Stars&diff=5141 2010-07-25T02:12:23Z

<p>Romero: </p> <hr /> <div>I already had this on my page, but here's the link to make it more easily accessible. Yes, I know it's Wikipedia, but the information is pretty legitimate. And it is a bit long, but even a scan through can get some good points. <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_star Variable Stars on Wikipedia]&lt;BR&gt;<br /> The main points I got out of this are:<br /> # Variable stars are classified as either intrinsic or extrinsic. Intrinsic is when the star itself is pulsating or having some sort of eruptions, causing the change in brightness. Extrinsic is when the star's brightness is blocked by another orbiting star.<br /> # Specifically, I think the ones we've been studying are considered cepheids, or variable stars with shorter periods like days or months and their variation isn't very varying (say that five times fast! The site calls their luminosities &quot;regular.&quot;)<br /> # Helium is the main cause of cepheids' fluctuations. Ionization, to be exact; gotta love chemistry.<br /> --[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 19:12, 24 July 2010 (PDT)</div>

Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Variable_Stars&diff=5140 2010-07-25T02:11:51Z

<p>Romero: </p> <hr /> <div>I already had this on my page, but here's the link to make it more easily accessible. Yes, I know it's Wikipedia, but the information is pretty legitimate. And it is a bit long, but even a scan through can get some good points. --[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 18:52, 24 July 2010 (PDT)&lt;BR&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_star Variable Stars on Wikipedia]&lt;BR&gt;<br /> The main points I got out of this are:<br /> # Variable stars are classified as either intrinsic or extrinsic. Intrinsic is when the star itself is pulsating or having some sort of eruptions, causing the change in brightness. Extrinsic is when the star's brightness is blocked by another orbiting star.<br /> # Specifically, I think the ones we've been studying are considered cepheids, or variable stars with shorter periods like days or months and their variation isn't very varying (say that five times fast! The site calls their luminosities &quot;regular.&quot;)<br /> # Helium is the main cause of cepheids' fluctuations. Ionization, to be exact; gotta love chemistry.</div>

Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Variable_Stars&diff=5139 2010-07-25T02:01:07Z

<p>Romero: </p> <hr /> <div>I already had this on my page, but here's the link to make it more easily accessible. Yes, I know it's Wikipedia, but the information is pretty legitimate. And it is a bit long, but even a scan through can get some good points. --[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 18:52, 24 July 2010 (PDT)&lt;BR&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_star Variable Stars on Wikipedia]&lt;BR&gt;<br /> The main points I got out of this are:<br /> # Variable stars are classified as either intrinsic or extrinsic. Intrinsic is when the star itself is pulsating or having some sort of eruptions, causing the change in brightness. Extrinsic is when the star's brightness is blocked by another orbiting star.<br /> # Specifically, I think the ones we've been studying are considered cepheids, or variable stars with shorter periods like days or months and their variation isn't very varying (say that five times fast! The site calls their luminosities &quot;regular.&quot;)</div>

Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Variability_of_the_Mid-IR_Sky_Current_Research_Activities&diff=5138 2010-07-25T01:53:29Z

<p>Romero: /* Variable Stars */</p> <hr /> <div>=[[Variability of the Mid-IR Sky Proposal]]=<br /> <br /> '''Here is the link to our Spring 2010 proposal http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/teacher_research/r4-variab/variabProposal.pdf'''<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> =[[Variability of the Mid-IR Sky Summer visit]]=<br /> <br /> We will be arriving on Thursday Aug 5, departing Aug 9 in hopes of working the three full days of Aug 6, 7 and 8. '''[[Variability of the Mid-IR Sky Summer visit | CLICK HERE for details]]'''<br /> <br /> <br /> = [[Generating Light Curves - APT and Excel ]] =<br /> <br /> You can find info to help you practice using APT to generate light curves on this page.<br /> <br /> [[File:test stars comp.jpg]]<br /> <br /> == Standard Deviation for Dummies ==<br /> <br /> Our Astronomers said it would be important for us to understand standard deviation. We found the button on Excel that calculates it for us, but doesn't really explain what it is. Here's an explanation and example. <br /> <br /> Standard deviation is a statistical measure of spread or variability. The standard deviation is tells you how closely the data are clustered around the average. We want to use the aperture and background subtraction settings that give us the smallest standard deviation for a star that is not varying. Our varying stars will of course have large standard deviations because they ARE varying.<br /> <br /> Formula: [[image:stddev.jpg]]<br /> <br /> Standard Deviation<br /> standard deviation formula <br /> <br /> where Σ = Sum of<br /> X = Individual score<br /> M = Mean (average) of all scores<br /> N = Sample size (Number of scores)<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Example: Find the Standard deviation of 3,2,1,1,and 3'''<br /> <br /> Step 1: Calculate the mean (average) and deviation.<br /> {| border=&quot;1&quot;<br /> |-<br /> |'''X'''<br /> |'''M'''<br /> |'''(X-M)''' <br /> |'''(X-M)2'''<br /> |-<br /> |3 <br /> |2<br /> |1<br /> |1<br /> |-<br /> |2<br /> |2<br /> |0<br /> |0<br /> |-<br /> |1<br /> |2<br /> |(-1)<br /> |1<br /> |-<br /> |-<br /> |1<br /> |2<br /> |(-1)<br /> |1<br /> |-<br /> |3<br /> |2<br /> |1<br /> |1<br /> |-<br /> |}<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Step 2:Find the sum of (X-M)2<br /> 1+0+1+1+1 = 4 <br /> <br /> Step 3:N = 5, the total number of values.Find N-1.<br /> 5-1 = 4<br /> <br /> Step 4:Now find Standard Deviation using the formula.<br /> √4/√4 = 1<br /> <br /> = '''Individual School Pages''' =<br /> == '''Communicating on Wiki!!!''' ==<br /> Wiki will tell you when anyone makes an edit or comment to any page if you&lt;BR&gt;<br /> &lt;BR&gt;-log in, click on my preferences, put your whole name in for your signature if you want, check off all of the boxes at the bottom to turn on the email function<br /> &lt;BR&gt;-go to the pages you want to &quot;watch&quot; and click on on the Watch tab, you'll get an email if there is a change to these pages <br /> &lt;BR&gt;-watch your practice page and everyone elses practice pages for now so you know any of us make a comment or put up something new<br /> &lt;BR&gt;-'''Please''' make comments using the discussion tab on anything and everything right now! <br /> &lt;BR&gt;-if you feel the urge to make the comment on the actual page, that's ok for any pages under Variability of the Mid IR Sky seeing that these are our pages, but if you comment on the main coolwiki, use the discussion page. <br /> <br /> == [[Lincoln-Way North High School in Frankfort, Illinois]] ==<br /> [[Image:Phoenix.jpg]][[Image:LWN.jpg]][[Image:Phoenix.jpg]]&lt;BR&gt;<br /> '''Teacher - Peggy Piper - Students - Joey R. - Rebecca R. - Justin C.''' &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Here are our light curves with standard deviations for the three test stars using Source Model B. &lt;BR&gt; From top to bottom in each graph, they are stars #1, #2, and #3. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> '''Mrs. P Question to you - which aperture background should we choose? Why?<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> Joey's Data for Aperture 3, Background 10 20&lt;BR&gt;<br /> [[File:Joey 3 10 20.jpg|600px|thumb|center|Joey aperture 3 background 10-20]]<br /> <br /> Rebecca's Data for Aperture 5, Background 5 10<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> [[File:Rebecca5510.jpg|600px|thumb|center|Rebecca aperture 5 background 5-10]]<br /> <br /> Joey's Data for Aperture 10, Background 12 20&lt;BR&gt;<br /> [[File:Joey 10 12 20.jpg|600px|thumb|center|Joey aperture 10 background 12-20]]<br /> <br /> ===[[LWN Data Files | CLICK HERE for our working data]]===<br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> ===[[LWN Student Practice Pages]]===<br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> === A Present for Mr. DeCoster from Mrs. Piper ===<br /> <br /> I broke my mini tripod, so these are not so carefully balanced on all sorts of odds and ends!<br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> Well, we can delete this commnet later. These are really great and inspiring, Mrs. Piper. But I cannot recall how to make proper comments/discussion so this will do for now. I was able to download these and will proceed to work on final ppt of Mars motion across our skies!<br /> &lt;BR&gt; by Mr DeCoster<br /> <br /> Yeah, officially your supposed to comment on the discussion page, but I think that only works when things are broken up into pages better - like if I had these on a page of their own, then your comments would make sense on the discussion page. But the way everthing is on one page here, it would be hard to match the comments with the pics. Let me know if these work or you need the orginals - can't wait to see the final ppt! --Peggy Piper 12:32, 7 July 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> [[File:MarsLowell061310.jpg|500px|thumb|center|Mars in Leo from Lowell Observatory June 13, 2010]]<br /> <br /> [[File:MarsGC061310.jpg|500px|thumb|center|Mars (bottom middle) in Leo from Grand Canyon June 14, 2010]]<br /> <br /> [[File:MarsCoSprings061110.jpg|500px|thumb|center|Mars (top left) in Leo from Grand Canyon June 11, 2010]]<br /> <br /> == [[Niles West High School in Skokie, Illinois]] ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Teacher - Rich DeCoster &lt;BR&gt;<br /> Student - Alexander &lt;BR&gt;<br /> Student - Aneesh <br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> ===[[Identifying Objects in ds9: a Pictorial Tutorial by Alex Antonow]]===<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> Here are two light curves by Alex &lt;BR&gt;<br /> [[image:Var Star with Avg.jpg|thumb|600px|center]] &lt;BR&gt;<br /> [[Media:APT_star_1_and_2.xls]] &lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> ===[[Niles West Student Observing Pages]]===<br /> <br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> ===[[Niles West Student Practice Pages]]===<br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> == [[North Middle School, Great Falls, Montana]] ==<br /> <br /> click on title above to get page to edit<br /> <br /> Teacher - Beth Thomas<br /> Student - Drew B. <br /> Student - Dallas F.<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> =Summer Discussion Topics=<br /> <br /> ==How Does Spitzer Work==<br /> <br /> So let's start looking into the details of how Spitzer works! I put a few subheadings below, we can add more as we go. Lets start with the mission. How 'bouts each of you come up with some facts about the history, the purpose, the reason Spizter was launched. There's plenty of info and links on this coolwiki.<br /> <br /> Rules: <br /> <br /> # come up with and list 5 facts (not here, on History/Mission page!)<br /> # you can't repeat someone else's fact (if you do this soon, its easier - poor Joey's out of town til Sat!)<br /> # once facts are up, come up with several questions about someone else's facts and post them below the fact (make sure you hit the signature button so we know who's talking)<br /> <br /> This time we'll talk right on the topic page instead of the discussion page.Click on History/Mission to see how I started. Ha - I took the easy ones!<br /> <br /> ===[[History/Mission]]===<br /> <br /> ===[[Physical Aspects]]===<br /> <br /> ===[[IR Channels]]===<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> ==[[Variable Stars]]==<br /> <br /> http://aavso.org/vstar/<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> ==[[Our Glorious Leaders]]==<br /> <br /> Most Definitely a couple of Cool Dudes<br /> <br /> [[File:cooldudes.jpg]]<br /> <br /> [[Media:DonSteveArt2008.pdf | Here is link to ‘‘DARK MATTER’’ IN ACCRETION DISKS by Steve Howell and Don Hoard that is of interest]]<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> =Other items=<br /> This is Rich. I hope I am not causing confusion. It is 11:15 am CST on Friday Jan. 22, 2010. I am trying to see what this does, since I have &quot;editing&quot; status here. Is this something we use instead of email, or is it a place to create documents that we edit together?<br /> Rich<br /> ps-Should something like this be in the &quot;discussion&quot; tab rather than the &quot;article&quot; tab?<br /> <br /> Hi Rich - no, you're not causing confusion, you're doing it exactly right! These pages under &quot;current research activities&quot; are really sort of &quot;shared white boards&quot;. The other half of the wiki (under &quot;research tools&quot;) are more articles, and in those cases, yes, questions should go into the discussion pages. I copied some headers in here, but please see some of the &quot;current research activity&quot; pages for the other current teams to see how they are using their pages. (e.g., [[CG4_Current_Research_Activities| cg4's page]]) Oh, and you can use this for whatever you want -- proposal preparation, conversation, sharing plots, brainstorming, etc. --[[User:Rebull|Rebull]] 13:12, 22 January 2010 (PST)</div>

Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Variable_Stars&diff=5137 2010-07-25T01:52:57Z

<p>Romero: Created page with 'I already had this on my page, but here's the link to make it more easily accessible. Yes, I know it's Wikipedia, but the information is pretty legitimate. And it is a bit long, …'</p> <hr /> <div>I already had this on my page, but here's the link to make it more easily accessible. Yes, I know it's Wikipedia, but the information is pretty legitimate. And it is a bit long, but even a scan through can get some good points. --[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 18:52, 24 July 2010 (PDT)&lt;BR&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_star Variable Stars on Wikipedia]</div>

Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Variability_of_the_Mid-IR_Sky_Current_Research_Activities&diff=5136 2010-07-25T01:47:51Z

<p>Romero: /* Variable Stars */</p> <hr /> <div>=[[Variability of the Mid-IR Sky Proposal]]=<br /> <br /> '''Here is the link to our Spring 2010 proposal http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/teacher_research/r4-variab/variabProposal.pdf'''<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> =[[Variability of the Mid-IR Sky Summer visit]]=<br /> <br /> We will be arriving on Thursday Aug 5, departing Aug 9 in hopes of working the three full days of Aug 6, 7 and 8. '''[[Variability of the Mid-IR Sky Summer visit | CLICK HERE for details]]'''<br /> <br /> <br /> = [[Generating Light Curves - APT and Excel ]] =<br /> <br /> You can find info to help you practice using APT to generate light curves on this page.<br /> <br /> [[File:test stars comp.jpg]]<br /> <br /> == Standard Deviation for Dummies ==<br /> <br /> Our Astronomers said it would be important for us to understand standard deviation. We found the button on Excel that calculates it for us, but doesn't really explain what it is. Here's an explanation and example. <br /> <br /> Standard deviation is a statistical measure of spread or variability. The standard deviation is tells you how closely the data are clustered around the average. We want to use the aperture and background subtraction settings that give us the smallest standard deviation for a star that is not varying. Our varying stars will of course have large standard deviations because they ARE varying.<br /> <br /> Formula: [[image:stddev.jpg]]<br /> <br /> Standard Deviation<br /> standard deviation formula <br /> <br /> where Σ = Sum of<br /> X = Individual score<br /> M = Mean (average) of all scores<br /> N = Sample size (Number of scores)<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Example: Find the Standard deviation of 3,2,1,1,and 3'''<br /> <br /> Step 1: Calculate the mean (average) and deviation.<br /> {| border=&quot;1&quot;<br /> |-<br /> |'''X'''<br /> |'''M'''<br /> |'''(X-M)''' <br /> |'''(X-M)2'''<br /> |-<br /> |3 <br /> |2<br /> |1<br /> |1<br /> |-<br /> |2<br /> |2<br /> |0<br /> |0<br /> |-<br /> |1<br /> |2<br /> |(-1)<br /> |1<br /> |-<br /> |-<br /> |1<br /> |2<br /> |(-1)<br /> |1<br /> |-<br /> |3<br /> |2<br /> |1<br /> |1<br /> |-<br /> |}<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Step 2:Find the sum of (X-M)2<br /> 1+0+1+1+1 = 4 <br /> <br /> Step 3:N = 5, the total number of values.Find N-1.<br /> 5-1 = 4<br /> <br /> Step 4:Now find Standard Deviation using the formula.<br /> √4/√4 = 1<br /> <br /> = '''Individual School Pages''' =<br /> == '''Communicating on Wiki!!!''' ==<br /> Wiki will tell you when anyone makes an edit or comment to any page if you&lt;BR&gt;<br /> &lt;BR&gt;-log in, click on my preferences, put your whole name in for your signature if you want, check off all of the boxes at the bottom to turn on the email function<br /> &lt;BR&gt;-go to the pages you want to &quot;watch&quot; and click on on the Watch tab, you'll get an email if there is a change to these pages <br /> &lt;BR&gt;-watch your practice page and everyone elses practice pages for now so you know any of us make a comment or put up something new<br /> &lt;BR&gt;-'''Please''' make comments using the discussion tab on anything and everything right now! <br /> &lt;BR&gt;-if you feel the urge to make the comment on the actual page, that's ok for any pages under Variability of the Mid IR Sky seeing that these are our pages, but if you comment on the main coolwiki, use the discussion page. <br /> <br /> == [[Lincoln-Way North High School in Frankfort, Illinois]] ==<br /> [[Image:Phoenix.jpg]][[Image:LWN.jpg]][[Image:Phoenix.jpg]]&lt;BR&gt;<br /> '''Teacher - Peggy Piper - Students - Joey R. - Rebecca R. - Justin C.''' &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Here are our light curves with standard deviations for the three test stars using Source Model B. &lt;BR&gt; From top to bottom in each graph, they are stars #1, #2, and #3. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> '''Mrs. P Question to you - which aperture background should we choose? Why?<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> Joey's Data for Aperture 3, Background 10 20&lt;BR&gt;<br /> [[File:Joey 3 10 20.jpg|600px|thumb|center|Joey aperture 3 background 10-20]]<br /> <br /> Rebecca's Data for Aperture 5, Background 5 10<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> [[File:Rebecca5510.jpg|600px|thumb|center|Rebecca aperture 5 background 5-10]]<br /> <br /> Joey's Data for Aperture 10, Background 12 20&lt;BR&gt;<br /> [[File:Joey 10 12 20.jpg|600px|thumb|center|Joey aperture 10 background 12-20]]<br /> <br /> ===[[LWN Data Files | CLICK HERE for our working data]]===<br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> ===[[LWN Student Practice Pages]]===<br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> === A Present for Mr. DeCoster from Mrs. Piper ===<br /> <br /> I broke my mini tripod, so these are not so carefully balanced on all sorts of odds and ends!<br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> Well, we can delete this commnet later. These are really great and inspiring, Mrs. Piper. But I cannot recall how to make proper comments/discussion so this will do for now. I was able to download these and will proceed to work on final ppt of Mars motion across our skies!<br /> &lt;BR&gt; by Mr DeCoster<br /> <br /> Yeah, officially your supposed to comment on the discussion page, but I think that only works when things are broken up into pages better - like if I had these on a page of their own, then your comments would make sense on the discussion page. But the way everthing is on one page here, it would be hard to match the comments with the pics. Let me know if these work or you need the orginals - can't wait to see the final ppt! --Peggy Piper 12:32, 7 July 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> [[File:MarsLowell061310.jpg|500px|thumb|center|Mars in Leo from Lowell Observatory June 13, 2010]]<br /> <br /> [[File:MarsGC061310.jpg|500px|thumb|center|Mars (bottom middle) in Leo from Grand Canyon June 14, 2010]]<br /> <br /> [[File:MarsCoSprings061110.jpg|500px|thumb|center|Mars (top left) in Leo from Grand Canyon June 11, 2010]]<br /> <br /> == [[Niles West High School in Skokie, Illinois]] ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Teacher - Rich DeCoster &lt;BR&gt;<br /> Student - Alexander &lt;BR&gt;<br /> Student - Aneesh <br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> ===[[Identifying Objects in ds9: a Pictorial Tutorial by Alex Antonow]]===<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> Here are two light curves by Alex &lt;BR&gt;<br /> [[image:Var Star with Avg.jpg|thumb|600px|center]] &lt;BR&gt;<br /> [[Media:APT_star_1_and_2.xls]] &lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> ===[[Niles West Student Observing Pages]]===<br /> <br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> ===[[Niles West Student Practice Pages]]===<br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> == [[North Middle School, Great Falls, Montana]] ==<br /> <br /> click on title above to get page to edit<br /> <br /> Teacher - Beth Thomas<br /> Student - Drew B. <br /> Student - Dallas F.<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> =Summer Discussion Topics=<br /> <br /> ==How Does Spitzer Work==<br /> <br /> So let's start looking into the details of how Spitzer works! I put a few subheadings below, we can add more as we go. Lets start with the mission. How 'bouts each of you come up with some facts about the history, the purpose, the reason Spizter was launched. There's plenty of info and links on this coolwiki.<br /> <br /> Rules: <br /> <br /> # come up with and list 5 facts (not here, on History/Mission page!)<br /> # you can't repeat someone else's fact (if you do this soon, its easier - poor Joey's out of town til Sat!)<br /> # once facts are up, come up with several questions about someone else's facts and post them below the fact (make sure you hit the signature button so we know who's talking)<br /> <br /> This time we'll talk right on the topic page instead of the discussion page.Click on History/Mission to see how I started. Ha - I took the easy ones!<br /> <br /> ===[[History/Mission]]===<br /> <br /> ===[[Physical Aspects]]===<br /> <br /> ===[[IR Channels]]===<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> ==[[Variable Stars]]==<br /> <br /> http://aavso.org/vstar/<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> I already had this on my page, but here's the link to make it more easily accessible. Yes, I know it's Wikipedia, but the information is pretty legitimate. And it is a bit long, but even a scan through can get some good points. --[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 18:47, 24 July 2010 (PDT)&lt;BR&gt; <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_star Variable Stars on Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> ==[[Our Glorious Leaders]]==<br /> <br /> Most Definitely a couple of Cool Dudes<br /> <br /> [[File:cooldudes.jpg]]<br /> <br /> [[Media:DonSteveArt2008.pdf | Here is link to ‘‘DARK MATTER’’ IN ACCRETION DISKS by Steve Howell and Don Hoard that is of interest]]<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> =Other items=<br /> This is Rich. I hope I am not causing confusion. It is 11:15 am CST on Friday Jan. 22, 2010. I am trying to see what this does, since I have &quot;editing&quot; status here. Is this something we use instead of email, or is it a place to create documents that we edit together?<br /> Rich<br /> ps-Should something like this be in the &quot;discussion&quot; tab rather than the &quot;article&quot; tab?<br /> <br /> Hi Rich - no, you're not causing confusion, you're doing it exactly right! These pages under &quot;current research activities&quot; are really sort of &quot;shared white boards&quot;. The other half of the wiki (under &quot;research tools&quot;) are more articles, and in those cases, yes, questions should go into the discussion pages. I copied some headers in here, but please see some of the &quot;current research activity&quot; pages for the other current teams to see how they are using their pages. (e.g., [[CG4_Current_Research_Activities| cg4's page]]) Oh, and you can use this for whatever you want -- proposal preparation, conversation, sharing plots, brainstorming, etc. --[[User:Rebull|Rebull]] 13:12, 22 January 2010 (PST)</div>

Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Variability_of_the_Mid-IR_Sky_Current_Research_Activities&diff=5135 2010-07-25T01:47:25Z

<p>Romero: /* Variable Stars */</p> <hr /> <div>=[[Variability of the Mid-IR Sky Proposal]]=<br /> <br /> '''Here is the link to our Spring 2010 proposal http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/teacher_research/r4-variab/variabProposal.pdf'''<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> =[[Variability of the Mid-IR Sky Summer visit]]=<br /> <br /> We will be arriving on Thursday Aug 5, departing Aug 9 in hopes of working the three full days of Aug 6, 7 and 8. '''[[Variability of the Mid-IR Sky Summer visit | CLICK HERE for details]]'''<br /> <br /> <br /> = [[Generating Light Curves - APT and Excel ]] =<br /> <br /> You can find info to help you practice using APT to generate light curves on this page.<br /> <br /> [[File:test stars comp.jpg]]<br /> <br /> == Standard Deviation for Dummies ==<br /> <br /> Our Astronomers said it would be important for us to understand standard deviation. We found the button on Excel that calculates it for us, but doesn't really explain what it is. Here's an explanation and example. <br /> <br /> Standard deviation is a statistical measure of spread or variability. The standard deviation is tells you how closely the data are clustered around the average. We want to use the aperture and background subtraction settings that give us the smallest standard deviation for a star that is not varying. Our varying stars will of course have large standard deviations because they ARE varying.<br /> <br /> Formula: [[image:stddev.jpg]]<br /> <br /> Standard Deviation<br /> standard deviation formula <br /> <br /> where Σ = Sum of<br /> X = Individual score<br /> M = Mean (average) of all scores<br /> N = Sample size (Number of scores)<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Example: Find the Standard deviation of 3,2,1,1,and 3'''<br /> <br /> Step 1: Calculate the mean (average) and deviation.<br /> {| border=&quot;1&quot;<br /> |-<br /> |'''X'''<br /> |'''M'''<br /> |'''(X-M)''' <br /> |'''(X-M)2'''<br /> |-<br /> |3 <br /> |2<br /> |1<br /> |1<br /> |-<br /> |2<br /> |2<br /> |0<br /> |0<br /> |-<br /> |1<br /> |2<br /> |(-1)<br /> |1<br /> |-<br /> |-<br /> |1<br /> |2<br /> |(-1)<br /> |1<br /> |-<br /> |3<br /> |2<br /> |1<br /> |1<br /> |-<br /> |}<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Step 2:Find the sum of (X-M)2<br /> 1+0+1+1+1 = 4 <br /> <br /> Step 3:N = 5, the total number of values.Find N-1.<br /> 5-1 = 4<br /> <br /> Step 4:Now find Standard Deviation using the formula.<br /> √4/√4 = 1<br /> <br /> = '''Individual School Pages''' =<br /> == '''Communicating on Wiki!!!''' ==<br /> Wiki will tell you when anyone makes an edit or comment to any page if you&lt;BR&gt;<br /> &lt;BR&gt;-log in, click on my preferences, put your whole name in for your signature if you want, check off all of the boxes at the bottom to turn on the email function<br /> &lt;BR&gt;-go to the pages you want to &quot;watch&quot; and click on on the Watch tab, you'll get an email if there is a change to these pages <br /> &lt;BR&gt;-watch your practice page and everyone elses practice pages for now so you know any of us make a comment or put up something new<br /> &lt;BR&gt;-'''Please''' make comments using the discussion tab on anything and everything right now! <br /> &lt;BR&gt;-if you feel the urge to make the comment on the actual page, that's ok for any pages under Variability of the Mid IR Sky seeing that these are our pages, but if you comment on the main coolwiki, use the discussion page. <br /> <br /> == [[Lincoln-Way North High School in Frankfort, Illinois]] ==<br /> [[Image:Phoenix.jpg]][[Image:LWN.jpg]][[Image:Phoenix.jpg]]&lt;BR&gt;<br /> '''Teacher - Peggy Piper - Students - Joey R. - Rebecca R. - Justin C.''' &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Here are our light curves with standard deviations for the three test stars using Source Model B. &lt;BR&gt; From top to bottom in each graph, they are stars #1, #2, and #3. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> '''Mrs. P Question to you - which aperture background should we choose? Why?<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> Joey's Data for Aperture 3, Background 10 20&lt;BR&gt;<br /> [[File:Joey 3 10 20.jpg|600px|thumb|center|Joey aperture 3 background 10-20]]<br /> <br /> Rebecca's Data for Aperture 5, Background 5 10<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> [[File:Rebecca5510.jpg|600px|thumb|center|Rebecca aperture 5 background 5-10]]<br /> <br /> Joey's Data for Aperture 10, Background 12 20&lt;BR&gt;<br /> [[File:Joey 10 12 20.jpg|600px|thumb|center|Joey aperture 10 background 12-20]]<br /> <br /> ===[[LWN Data Files | CLICK HERE for our working data]]===<br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> ===[[LWN Student Practice Pages]]===<br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> === A Present for Mr. DeCoster from Mrs. Piper ===<br /> <br /> I broke my mini tripod, so these are not so carefully balanced on all sorts of odds and ends!<br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> Well, we can delete this commnet later. These are really great and inspiring, Mrs. Piper. But I cannot recall how to make proper comments/discussion so this will do for now. I was able to download these and will proceed to work on final ppt of Mars motion across our skies!<br /> &lt;BR&gt; by Mr DeCoster<br /> <br /> Yeah, officially your supposed to comment on the discussion page, but I think that only works when things are broken up into pages better - like if I had these on a page of their own, then your comments would make sense on the discussion page. But the way everthing is on one page here, it would be hard to match the comments with the pics. Let me know if these work or you need the orginals - can't wait to see the final ppt! --Peggy Piper 12:32, 7 July 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> [[File:MarsLowell061310.jpg|500px|thumb|center|Mars in Leo from Lowell Observatory June 13, 2010]]<br /> <br /> [[File:MarsGC061310.jpg|500px|thumb|center|Mars (bottom middle) in Leo from Grand Canyon June 14, 2010]]<br /> <br /> [[File:MarsCoSprings061110.jpg|500px|thumb|center|Mars (top left) in Leo from Grand Canyon June 11, 2010]]<br /> <br /> == [[Niles West High School in Skokie, Illinois]] ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Teacher - Rich DeCoster &lt;BR&gt;<br /> Student - Alexander &lt;BR&gt;<br /> Student - Aneesh <br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> ===[[Identifying Objects in ds9: a Pictorial Tutorial by Alex Antonow]]===<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> Here are two light curves by Alex &lt;BR&gt;<br /> [[image:Var Star with Avg.jpg|thumb|600px|center]] &lt;BR&gt;<br /> [[Media:APT_star_1_and_2.xls]] &lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> ===[[Niles West Student Observing Pages]]===<br /> <br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> ===[[Niles West Student Practice Pages]]===<br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> == [[North Middle School, Great Falls, Montana]] ==<br /> <br /> click on title above to get page to edit<br /> <br /> Teacher - Beth Thomas<br /> Student - Drew B. <br /> Student - Dallas F.<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> =Summer Discussion Topics=<br /> <br /> ==How Does Spitzer Work==<br /> <br /> So let's start looking into the details of how Spitzer works! I put a few subheadings below, we can add more as we go. Lets start with the mission. How 'bouts each of you come up with some facts about the history, the purpose, the reason Spizter was launched. There's plenty of info and links on this coolwiki.<br /> <br /> Rules: <br /> <br /> # come up with and list 5 facts (not here, on History/Mission page!)<br /> # you can't repeat someone else's fact (if you do this soon, its easier - poor Joey's out of town til Sat!)<br /> # once facts are up, come up with several questions about someone else's facts and post them below the fact (make sure you hit the signature button so we know who's talking)<br /> <br /> This time we'll talk right on the topic page instead of the discussion page.Click on History/Mission to see how I started. Ha - I took the easy ones!<br /> <br /> ===[[History/Mission]]===<br /> <br /> ===[[Physical Aspects]]===<br /> <br /> ===[[IR Channels]]===<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> ==[[Variable Stars]]==<br /> <br /> http://aavso.org/vstar/<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> I already had this on my page, but here's the link to make it more easily accessible. Yes, I know it's Wikipedia, but the information is pretty legitimate. And it is a bit long, but even a scan through can get some good points.&lt;BR&gt; <br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_star Variable Stars on Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> ==[[Our Glorious Leaders]]==<br /> <br /> Most Definitely a couple of Cool Dudes<br /> <br /> [[File:cooldudes.jpg]]<br /> <br /> [[Media:DonSteveArt2008.pdf | Here is link to ‘‘DARK MATTER’’ IN ACCRETION DISKS by Steve Howell and Don Hoard that is of interest]]<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> =Other items=<br /> This is Rich. I hope I am not causing confusion. It is 11:15 am CST on Friday Jan. 22, 2010. I am trying to see what this does, since I have &quot;editing&quot; status here. Is this something we use instead of email, or is it a place to create documents that we edit together?<br /> Rich<br /> ps-Should something like this be in the &quot;discussion&quot; tab rather than the &quot;article&quot; tab?<br /> <br /> Hi Rich - no, you're not causing confusion, you're doing it exactly right! These pages under &quot;current research activities&quot; are really sort of &quot;shared white boards&quot;. The other half of the wiki (under &quot;research tools&quot;) are more articles, and in those cases, yes, questions should go into the discussion pages. I copied some headers in here, but please see some of the &quot;current research activity&quot; pages for the other current teams to see how they are using their pages. (e.g., [[CG4_Current_Research_Activities| cg4's page]]) Oh, and you can use this for whatever you want -- proposal preparation, conversation, sharing plots, brainstorming, etc. --[[User:Rebull|Rebull]] 13:12, 22 January 2010 (PST)</div>

Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Variability_of_the_Mid-IR_Sky_Current_Research_Activities&diff=5134 2010-07-25T01:45:05Z

<p>Romero: /* Variable Stars */</p> <hr /> <div>=[[Variability of the Mid-IR Sky Proposal]]=<br /> <br /> '''Here is the link to our Spring 2010 proposal http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/teacher_research/r4-variab/variabProposal.pdf'''<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> =[[Variability of the Mid-IR Sky Summer visit]]=<br /> <br /> We will be arriving on Thursday Aug 5, departing Aug 9 in hopes of working the three full days of Aug 6, 7 and 8. '''[[Variability of the Mid-IR Sky Summer visit | CLICK HERE for details]]'''<br /> <br /> <br /> = [[Generating Light Curves - APT and Excel ]] =<br /> <br /> You can find info to help you practice using APT to generate light curves on this page.<br /> <br /> [[File:test stars comp.jpg]]<br /> <br /> == Standard Deviation for Dummies ==<br /> <br /> Our Astronomers said it would be important for us to understand standard deviation. We found the button on Excel that calculates it for us, but doesn't really explain what it is. Here's an explanation and example. <br /> <br /> Standard deviation is a statistical measure of spread or variability. The standard deviation is tells you how closely the data are clustered around the average. We want to use the aperture and background subtraction settings that give us the smallest standard deviation for a star that is not varying. Our varying stars will of course have large standard deviations because they ARE varying.<br /> <br /> Formula: [[image:stddev.jpg]]<br /> <br /> Standard Deviation<br /> standard deviation formula <br /> <br /> where Σ = Sum of<br /> X = Individual score<br /> M = Mean (average) of all scores<br /> N = Sample size (Number of scores)<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Example: Find the Standard deviation of 3,2,1,1,and 3'''<br /> <br /> Step 1: Calculate the mean (average) and deviation.<br /> {| border=&quot;1&quot;<br /> |-<br /> |'''X'''<br /> |'''M'''<br /> |'''(X-M)''' <br /> |'''(X-M)2'''<br /> |-<br /> |3 <br /> |2<br /> |1<br /> |1<br /> |-<br /> |2<br /> |2<br /> |0<br /> |0<br /> |-<br /> |1<br /> |2<br /> |(-1)<br /> |1<br /> |-<br /> |-<br /> |1<br /> |2<br /> |(-1)<br /> |1<br /> |-<br /> |3<br /> |2<br /> |1<br /> |1<br /> |-<br /> |}<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Step 2:Find the sum of (X-M)2<br /> 1+0+1+1+1 = 4 <br /> <br /> Step 3:N = 5, the total number of values.Find N-1.<br /> 5-1 = 4<br /> <br /> Step 4:Now find Standard Deviation using the formula.<br /> √4/√4 = 1<br /> <br /> = '''Individual School Pages''' =<br /> == '''Communicating on Wiki!!!''' ==<br /> Wiki will tell you when anyone makes an edit or comment to any page if you&lt;BR&gt;<br /> &lt;BR&gt;-log in, click on my preferences, put your whole name in for your signature if you want, check off all of the boxes at the bottom to turn on the email function<br /> &lt;BR&gt;-go to the pages you want to &quot;watch&quot; and click on on the Watch tab, you'll get an email if there is a change to these pages <br /> &lt;BR&gt;-watch your practice page and everyone elses practice pages for now so you know any of us make a comment or put up something new<br /> &lt;BR&gt;-'''Please''' make comments using the discussion tab on anything and everything right now! <br /> &lt;BR&gt;-if you feel the urge to make the comment on the actual page, that's ok for any pages under Variability of the Mid IR Sky seeing that these are our pages, but if you comment on the main coolwiki, use the discussion page. <br /> <br /> == [[Lincoln-Way North High School in Frankfort, Illinois]] ==<br /> [[Image:Phoenix.jpg]][[Image:LWN.jpg]][[Image:Phoenix.jpg]]&lt;BR&gt;<br /> '''Teacher - Peggy Piper - Students - Joey R. - Rebecca R. - Justin C.''' &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Here are our light curves with standard deviations for the three test stars using Source Model B. &lt;BR&gt; From top to bottom in each graph, they are stars #1, #2, and #3. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> '''Mrs. P Question to you - which aperture background should we choose? Why?<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> Joey's Data for Aperture 3, Background 10 20&lt;BR&gt;<br /> [[File:Joey 3 10 20.jpg|600px|thumb|center|Joey aperture 3 background 10-20]]<br /> <br /> Rebecca's Data for Aperture 5, Background 5 10<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> [[File:Rebecca5510.jpg|600px|thumb|center|Rebecca aperture 5 background 5-10]]<br /> <br /> Joey's Data for Aperture 10, Background 12 20&lt;BR&gt;<br /> [[File:Joey 10 12 20.jpg|600px|thumb|center|Joey aperture 10 background 12-20]]<br /> <br /> ===[[LWN Data Files | CLICK HERE for our working data]]===<br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> ===[[LWN Student Practice Pages]]===<br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> === A Present for Mr. DeCoster from Mrs. Piper ===<br /> <br /> I broke my mini tripod, so these are not so carefully balanced on all sorts of odds and ends!<br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> Well, we can delete this commnet later. These are really great and inspiring, Mrs. Piper. But I cannot recall how to make proper comments/discussion so this will do for now. I was able to download these and will proceed to work on final ppt of Mars motion across our skies!<br /> &lt;BR&gt; by Mr DeCoster<br /> <br /> Yeah, officially your supposed to comment on the discussion page, but I think that only works when things are broken up into pages better - like if I had these on a page of their own, then your comments would make sense on the discussion page. But the way everthing is on one page here, it would be hard to match the comments with the pics. Let me know if these work or you need the orginals - can't wait to see the final ppt! --Peggy Piper 12:32, 7 July 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> [[File:MarsLowell061310.jpg|500px|thumb|center|Mars in Leo from Lowell Observatory June 13, 2010]]<br /> <br /> [[File:MarsGC061310.jpg|500px|thumb|center|Mars (bottom middle) in Leo from Grand Canyon June 14, 2010]]<br /> <br /> [[File:MarsCoSprings061110.jpg|500px|thumb|center|Mars (top left) in Leo from Grand Canyon June 11, 2010]]<br /> <br /> == [[Niles West High School in Skokie, Illinois]] ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Teacher - Rich DeCoster &lt;BR&gt;<br /> Student - Alexander &lt;BR&gt;<br /> Student - Aneesh <br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> ===[[Identifying Objects in ds9: a Pictorial Tutorial by Alex Antonow]]===<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> Here are two light curves by Alex &lt;BR&gt;<br /> [[image:Var Star with Avg.jpg|thumb|600px|center]] &lt;BR&gt;<br /> [[Media:APT_star_1_and_2.xls]] &lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> ===[[Niles West Student Observing Pages]]===<br /> <br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> ===[[Niles West Student Practice Pages]]===<br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> == [[North Middle School, Great Falls, Montana]] ==<br /> <br /> click on title above to get page to edit<br /> <br /> Teacher - Beth Thomas<br /> Student - Drew B. <br /> Student - Dallas F.<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> =Summer Discussion Topics=<br /> <br /> ==How Does Spitzer Work==<br /> <br /> So let's start looking into the details of how Spitzer works! I put a few subheadings below, we can add more as we go. Lets start with the mission. How 'bouts each of you come up with some facts about the history, the purpose, the reason Spizter was launched. There's plenty of info and links on this coolwiki.<br /> <br /> Rules: <br /> <br /> # come up with and list 5 facts (not here, on History/Mission page!)<br /> # you can't repeat someone else's fact (if you do this soon, its easier - poor Joey's out of town til Sat!)<br /> # once facts are up, come up with several questions about someone else's facts and post them below the fact (make sure you hit the signature button so we know who's talking)<br /> <br /> This time we'll talk right on the topic page instead of the discussion page.Click on History/Mission to see how I started. Ha - I took the easy ones!<br /> <br /> ===[[History/Mission]]===<br /> <br /> ===[[Physical Aspects]]===<br /> <br /> ===[[IR Channels]]===<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> ==[[Variable Stars]]==<br /> <br /> http://aavso.org/vstar/<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_star Variable Stars on Wikipedia]<br /> <br /> ==[[Our Glorious Leaders]]==<br /> <br /> Most Definitely a couple of Cool Dudes<br /> <br /> [[File:cooldudes.jpg]]<br /> <br /> [[Media:DonSteveArt2008.pdf | Here is link to ‘‘DARK MATTER’’ IN ACCRETION DISKS by Steve Howell and Don Hoard that is of interest]]<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> =Other items=<br /> This is Rich. I hope I am not causing confusion. It is 11:15 am CST on Friday Jan. 22, 2010. I am trying to see what this does, since I have &quot;editing&quot; status here. Is this something we use instead of email, or is it a place to create documents that we edit together?<br /> Rich<br /> ps-Should something like this be in the &quot;discussion&quot; tab rather than the &quot;article&quot; tab?<br /> <br /> Hi Rich - no, you're not causing confusion, you're doing it exactly right! These pages under &quot;current research activities&quot; are really sort of &quot;shared white boards&quot;. The other half of the wiki (under &quot;research tools&quot;) are more articles, and in those cases, yes, questions should go into the discussion pages. I copied some headers in here, but please see some of the &quot;current research activity&quot; pages for the other current teams to see how they are using their pages. (e.g., [[CG4_Current_Research_Activities| cg4's page]]) Oh, and you can use this for whatever you want -- proposal preparation, conversation, sharing plots, brainstorming, etc. --[[User:Rebull|Rebull]] 13:12, 22 January 2010 (PST)</div>

Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Variability_of_the_Mid-IR_Sky_Current_Research_Activities&diff=5133 2010-07-25T01:43:18Z

<p>Romero: /* Variable Stars */</p> <hr /> <div>=[[Variability of the Mid-IR Sky Proposal]]=<br /> <br /> '''Here is the link to our Spring 2010 proposal http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/teacher_research/r4-variab/variabProposal.pdf'''<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> =[[Variability of the Mid-IR Sky Summer visit]]=<br /> <br /> We will be arriving on Thursday Aug 5, departing Aug 9 in hopes of working the three full days of Aug 6, 7 and 8. '''[[Variability of the Mid-IR Sky Summer visit | CLICK HERE for details]]'''<br /> <br /> <br /> = [[Generating Light Curves - APT and Excel ]] =<br /> <br /> You can find info to help you practice using APT to generate light curves on this page.<br /> <br /> [[File:test stars comp.jpg]]<br /> <br /> == Standard Deviation for Dummies ==<br /> <br /> Our Astronomers said it would be important for us to understand standard deviation. We found the button on Excel that calculates it for us, but doesn't really explain what it is. Here's an explanation and example. <br /> <br /> Standard deviation is a statistical measure of spread or variability. The standard deviation is tells you how closely the data are clustered around the average. We want to use the aperture and background subtraction settings that give us the smallest standard deviation for a star that is not varying. Our varying stars will of course have large standard deviations because they ARE varying.<br /> <br /> Formula: [[image:stddev.jpg]]<br /> <br /> Standard Deviation<br /> standard deviation formula <br /> <br /> where Σ = Sum of<br /> X = Individual score<br /> M = Mean (average) of all scores<br /> N = Sample size (Number of scores)<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Example: Find the Standard deviation of 3,2,1,1,and 3'''<br /> <br /> Step 1: Calculate the mean (average) and deviation.<br /> {| border=&quot;1&quot;<br /> |-<br /> |'''X'''<br /> |'''M'''<br /> |'''(X-M)''' <br /> |'''(X-M)2'''<br /> |-<br /> |3 <br /> |2<br /> |1<br /> |1<br /> |-<br /> |2<br /> |2<br /> |0<br /> |0<br /> |-<br /> |1<br /> |2<br /> |(-1)<br /> |1<br /> |-<br /> |-<br /> |1<br /> |2<br /> |(-1)<br /> |1<br /> |-<br /> |3<br /> |2<br /> |1<br /> |1<br /> |-<br /> |}<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Step 2:Find the sum of (X-M)2<br /> 1+0+1+1+1 = 4 <br /> <br /> Step 3:N = 5, the total number of values.Find N-1.<br /> 5-1 = 4<br /> <br /> Step 4:Now find Standard Deviation using the formula.<br /> √4/√4 = 1<br /> <br /> = '''Individual School Pages''' =<br /> == '''Communicating on Wiki!!!''' ==<br /> Wiki will tell you when anyone makes an edit or comment to any page if you&lt;BR&gt;<br /> &lt;BR&gt;-log in, click on my preferences, put your whole name in for your signature if you want, check off all of the boxes at the bottom to turn on the email function<br /> &lt;BR&gt;-go to the pages you want to &quot;watch&quot; and click on on the Watch tab, you'll get an email if there is a change to these pages <br /> &lt;BR&gt;-watch your practice page and everyone elses practice pages for now so you know any of us make a comment or put up something new<br /> &lt;BR&gt;-'''Please''' make comments using the discussion tab on anything and everything right now! <br /> &lt;BR&gt;-if you feel the urge to make the comment on the actual page, that's ok for any pages under Variability of the Mid IR Sky seeing that these are our pages, but if you comment on the main coolwiki, use the discussion page. <br /> <br /> == [[Lincoln-Way North High School in Frankfort, Illinois]] ==<br /> [[Image:Phoenix.jpg]][[Image:LWN.jpg]][[Image:Phoenix.jpg]]&lt;BR&gt;<br /> '''Teacher - Peggy Piper - Students - Joey R. - Rebecca R. - Justin C.''' &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Here are our light curves with standard deviations for the three test stars using Source Model B. &lt;BR&gt; From top to bottom in each graph, they are stars #1, #2, and #3. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> '''Mrs. P Question to you - which aperture background should we choose? Why?<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> Joey's Data for Aperture 3, Background 10 20&lt;BR&gt;<br /> [[File:Joey 3 10 20.jpg|600px|thumb|center|Joey aperture 3 background 10-20]]<br /> <br /> Rebecca's Data for Aperture 5, Background 5 10<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> [[File:Rebecca5510.jpg|600px|thumb|center|Rebecca aperture 5 background 5-10]]<br /> <br /> Joey's Data for Aperture 10, Background 12 20&lt;BR&gt;<br /> [[File:Joey 10 12 20.jpg|600px|thumb|center|Joey aperture 10 background 12-20]]<br /> <br /> ===[[LWN Data Files | CLICK HERE for our working data]]===<br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> ===[[LWN Student Practice Pages]]===<br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> === A Present for Mr. DeCoster from Mrs. Piper ===<br /> <br /> I broke my mini tripod, so these are not so carefully balanced on all sorts of odds and ends!<br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> Well, we can delete this commnet later. These are really great and inspiring, Mrs. Piper. But I cannot recall how to make proper comments/discussion so this will do for now. I was able to download these and will proceed to work on final ppt of Mars motion across our skies!<br /> &lt;BR&gt; by Mr DeCoster<br /> <br /> Yeah, officially your supposed to comment on the discussion page, but I think that only works when things are broken up into pages better - like if I had these on a page of their own, then your comments would make sense on the discussion page. But the way everthing is on one page here, it would be hard to match the comments with the pics. Let me know if these work or you need the orginals - can't wait to see the final ppt! --Peggy Piper 12:32, 7 July 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> [[File:MarsLowell061310.jpg|500px|thumb|center|Mars in Leo from Lowell Observatory June 13, 2010]]<br /> <br /> [[File:MarsGC061310.jpg|500px|thumb|center|Mars (bottom middle) in Leo from Grand Canyon June 14, 2010]]<br /> <br /> [[File:MarsCoSprings061110.jpg|500px|thumb|center|Mars (top left) in Leo from Grand Canyon June 11, 2010]]<br /> <br /> == [[Niles West High School in Skokie, Illinois]] ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Teacher - Rich DeCoster &lt;BR&gt;<br /> Student - Alexander &lt;BR&gt;<br /> Student - Aneesh <br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> ===[[Identifying Objects in ds9: a Pictorial Tutorial by Alex Antonow]]===<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> Here are two light curves by Alex &lt;BR&gt;<br /> [[image:Var Star with Avg.jpg|thumb|600px|center]] &lt;BR&gt;<br /> [[Media:APT_star_1_and_2.xls]] &lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> ===[[Niles West Student Observing Pages]]===<br /> <br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> ===[[Niles West Student Practice Pages]]===<br /> &lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> == [[North Middle School, Great Falls, Montana]] ==<br /> <br /> click on title above to get page to edit<br /> <br /> Teacher - Beth Thomas<br /> Student - Drew B. <br /> Student - Dallas F.<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> =Summer Discussion Topics=<br /> <br /> ==How Does Spitzer Work==<br /> <br /> So let's start looking into the details of how Spitzer works! I put a few subheadings below, we can add more as we go. Lets start with the mission. How 'bouts each of you come up with some facts about the history, the purpose, the reason Spizter was launched. There's plenty of info and links on this coolwiki.<br /> <br /> Rules: <br /> <br /> # come up with and list 5 facts (not here, on History/Mission page!)<br /> # you can't repeat someone else's fact (if you do this soon, its easier - poor Joey's out of town til Sat!)<br /> # once facts are up, come up with several questions about someone else's facts and post them below the fact (make sure you hit the signature button so we know who's talking)<br /> <br /> This time we'll talk right on the topic page instead of the discussion page.Click on History/Mission to see how I started. Ha - I took the easy ones!<br /> <br /> ===[[History/Mission]]===<br /> <br /> ===[[Physical Aspects]]===<br /> <br /> ===[[IR Channels]]===<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> ==[[Variable Stars]]==<br /> <br /> http://aavso.org/vstar/<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_star<br /> <br /> ==[[Our Glorious Leaders]]==<br /> <br /> Most Definitely a couple of Cool Dudes<br /> <br /> [[File:cooldudes.jpg]]<br /> <br /> [[Media:DonSteveArt2008.pdf | Here is link to ‘‘DARK MATTER’’ IN ACCRETION DISKS by Steve Howell and Don Hoard that is of interest]]<br /> &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> <br /> =Other items=<br /> This is Rich. I hope I am not causing confusion. It is 11:15 am CST on Friday Jan. 22, 2010. I am trying to see what this does, since I have &quot;editing&quot; status here. Is this something we use instead of email, or is it a place to create documents that we edit together?<br /> Rich<br /> ps-Should something like this be in the &quot;discussion&quot; tab rather than the &quot;article&quot; tab?<br /> <br /> Hi Rich - no, you're not causing confusion, you're doing it exactly right! These pages under &quot;current research activities&quot; are really sort of &quot;shared white boards&quot;. The other half of the wiki (under &quot;research tools&quot;) are more articles, and in those cases, yes, questions should go into the discussion pages. I copied some headers in here, but please see some of the &quot;current research activity&quot; pages for the other current teams to see how they are using their pages. (e.g., [[CG4_Current_Research_Activities| cg4's page]]) Oh, and you can use this for whatever you want -- proposal preparation, conversation, sharing plots, brainstorming, etc. --[[User:Rebull|Rebull]] 13:12, 22 January 2010 (PST)</div>

Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Talk:Joey_Romero&diff=4950 2010-07-08T18:13:02Z

<p>Romero: </p> <hr /> <div>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 [[Image:Star.jpg]]!! Make sure you sign your comments --[[User:Piper|Piper]] 21:19, 30 May 2010 (PDT)&lt;BR&gt;<br /> 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!&lt;BR&gt;P.S. I like the star better than the heart anyway!&lt;BR&gt; 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. <br /> --[[User:Romero|Romero]] 14:53, 31 May 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> 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.--[[User:Piper|Piper]] 16:47, 31 May 2010 (PDT)&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Yep! SDSS was what I was thinking of. Are there any other things I gotta do?--[[User:Romero|Romero]] 09:46, 1 June 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> 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 &quot;student&quot; page at Niles West part of Wiki that you are certainly welcome to comment on.<br /> <br /> <br /> 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)<br /> <br /> 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)<br /> <br /> 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. --[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 20:14, 1 June 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> 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! :) --[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 09:22, 13 June 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> 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)<br /> <br /> I'm back! :) Camp was super fun. Now let's start up some astronomy! --[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 18:31, 19 June 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> --[[User:Decoster|Decoster]] 20:28, 19 June 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> <br /> 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!<br /> <br /> Welcome to you as well Mr. Decoster! --Peggy Piper 08:19, 20 June 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> HEYYY!!! IM HEREE!!! (: --[[User:Rosignolo|Rebecca Ann Rosignolo (:]] 18:56, 20 June 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> 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 &quot;student&quot; page at Niles West part of Wiki that you are certainly welcome to comment on.<br /> 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.<br /> --[[User:Decoster|Richard DeCoster]] 12:06, 21 June 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> Very &quot;cool&quot; 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 &quot;tunes&quot; 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 &quot;see&quot; 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)<br /> <br /> 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. --[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 18:34, 7 July 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> 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)<br /> <br /> 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. --[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 11:13, 8 July 2010 (PDT)</div>

Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Talk:Joey_Romero&diff=4937 2010-07-08T01:34:57Z

<p>Romero: </p> <hr /> <div>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 [[Image:Star.jpg]]!! Make sure you sign your comments --[[User:Piper|Piper]] 21:19, 30 May 2010 (PDT)&lt;BR&gt;<br /> 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!&lt;BR&gt;P.S. I like the star better than the heart anyway!&lt;BR&gt; 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. <br /> --[[User:Romero|Romero]] 14:53, 31 May 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> 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.--[[User:Piper|Piper]] 16:47, 31 May 2010 (PDT)&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Yep! SDSS was what I was thinking of. Are there any other things I gotta do?--[[User:Romero|Romero]] 09:46, 1 June 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> 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 &quot;student&quot; page at Niles West part of Wiki that you are certainly welcome to comment on.<br /> <br /> <br /> 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)<br /> <br /> 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)<br /> <br /> 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. --[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 20:14, 1 June 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> 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! :) --[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 09:22, 13 June 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> 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)<br /> <br /> I'm back! :) Camp was super fun. Now let's start up some astronomy! --[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 18:31, 19 June 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> --[[User:Decoster|Decoster]] 20:28, 19 June 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> <br /> 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!<br /> <br /> Welcome to you as well Mr. Decoster! --Peggy Piper 08:19, 20 June 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> HEYYY!!! IM HEREE!!! (: --[[User:Rosignolo|Rebecca Ann Rosignolo (:]] 18:56, 20 June 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> 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 &quot;student&quot; page at Niles West part of Wiki that you are certainly welcome to comment on.<br /> 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.<br /> --[[User:Decoster|Richard DeCoster]] 12:06, 21 June 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> Very &quot;cool&quot; 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 &quot;tunes&quot; 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 &quot;see&quot; 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)<br /> <br /> 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. --[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 18:34, 7 July 2010 (PDT)</div>

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Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Talk:History/Mission&diff=4918 2010-07-07T21:15:03Z

<p>Romero: </p> <hr /> <div>Well done Joey-your facts involve a lot of good physics! I will try to get one of my students to join the fun here.--[[User:Decoster|Richard DeCoster]] 15:38, 21 June 2010 (PDT)&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Thank you! Sorry for the extreme delay in response. :)--[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 14:15, 7 July 2010 (PDT)</div>

Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Talk:Joey_Romero&diff=4802 2010-06-20T01:31:24Z

<p>Romero: </p> <hr /> <div>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 [[Image:Star.jpg]]!! Make sure you sign your comments --[[User:Piper|Piper]] 21:19, 30 May 2010 (PDT)&lt;BR&gt;<br /> 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!&lt;BR&gt;P.S. I like the star better than the heart anyway!&lt;BR&gt; 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. <br /> --[[User:Romero|Romero]] 14:53, 31 May 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> 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.--[[User:Piper|Piper]] 16:47, 31 May 2010 (PDT)&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Yep! SDSS was what I was thinking of. Are there any other things I gotta do?--[[User:Romero|Romero]] 09:46, 1 June 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> 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)<br /> <br /> 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)<br /> <br /> 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. --[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 20:14, 1 June 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> 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! :) --[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 09:22, 13 June 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> 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)<br /> <br /> I'm back! :) Camp was super fun. Now let's start up some astronomy! --[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 18:31, 19 June 2010 (PDT)</div>

Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Talk:Joey_Romero&diff=4735 2010-06-13T16:22:33Z

<p>Romero: </p> <hr /> <div>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 [[Image:Star.jpg]]!! Make sure you sign your comments --[[User:Piper|Piper]] 21:19, 30 May 2010 (PDT)&lt;BR&gt;<br /> 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!&lt;BR&gt;P.S. I like the star better than the heart anyway!&lt;BR&gt; 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. <br /> --[[User:Romero|Romero]] 14:53, 31 May 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> 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.--[[User:Piper|Piper]] 16:47, 31 May 2010 (PDT)&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Yep! SDSS was what I was thinking of. Are there any other things I gotta do?--[[User:Romero|Romero]] 09:46, 1 June 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> 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)<br /> <br /> 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)<br /> <br /> 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. --[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 20:14, 1 June 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> 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! :) --[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 09:22, 13 June 2010 (PDT)</div>

Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Talk:Rebecca_Rosignolo&diff=4726 2010-06-08T21:22:03Z

<p>Romero: /* CALTECH!!!! */</p> <hr /> <div>whats up!?<br /> <br /> == CALTECH!!!! ==<br /> <br /> I am super excited to go to California!<br /> <br /> Very nice Rebecca, you are also awesome and I [[Image:Heart.jpg]] you too, but how 'bout a nice image to pretty things up. <br /> guess how I add my signature and date right here? --[[User:Piper|Piper]] 21:08, 30 May 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> Woo-hoo!! You moved it all and changed the main practice page back, good job!--Peggy Piper 22:23, 31 May 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> yeah. what else do i have to do!? --[[User:Rosignolo|Rebecca Ann Rosignolo (:]] 22:32, 31 May 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> Hey guys. Rebecca, I like your dog! :D Lol I tried to upload a picture of me, and it turned out GIGANTIC. Like, just the top of my head took up the full screen. Hahah so I took it down. So yea, I thought I'd comment since Mrs. Piper said '''PLEASE COMMENT''' on other people's pages. :)--[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 10:20, 1 June 2010 (PDT) <br /> <br /> A giant head sounds scarey. You should be able to resize your images before you upload them using microsoft picture manager - edit pictures - resize. to replace your current giant pics, click on image, choose to reload image and upload your smaller one, wiki will keep both versions but desplay the most recent. Nice link to LWN music Rebecca! was that there before? --Peggy Piper 10:51, 1 June 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> hahahaha! ella bean read that!! isnt she ahdorable?! joey, i could help you figure out the picture thing. when you upload a picture there should be a box underneath that says dimensions, and you can change it. or you can send me yer picture and ill upload it for you! i read your page, wayy better than mine. darn it! Mrs. Piper, you making a page??!?? --[[User:Rosignolo|Rebecca Ann Rosignolo (:]] 12:03, 1 June 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> I like the idea of Mrs. Piper's own page! :) and Mrs. P, I like the picture you added with all of us! This Wiki is coming along nicely! --[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 18:12, 1 June 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> hey this article is really cool, NASA thinks their could be the possibility of a life form on one of Saturn's moons, Titan. [http://www.aolnews.com/science/article/csould-new-life-form-lurk-on-titan-saturns-biggest-moon/19506592?icid=main|aim|dl1|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aolnews.com%2Fscience%2Farticle%2Fcsould-new-life-form-lurk-on-titan-saturns-biggest-moon%2F19506592] you all should check it out. i hope i did the link right. :/--[[User:Rosignolo|Rebecca Ann Rosignolo (:]] 18:16, 7 June 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> Weird! I didn't know there could be such a thing as hydrogen-based life forms! Pretty cool article! :) --[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 14:22, 8 June 2010 (PDT)</div>

Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Talk:Aneesh_Sehgal&diff=4724 2010-06-07T18:14:08Z

<p>Romero: </p> <hr /> <div>Welcome to the wiki Aneesh, feel free to steal stuff from our practice pages to figure out how to do headings, etc... --Peggy Piper 20:34, 3 June 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> Looking forward to seeing you in California, Aneesh! :) --[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 11:14, 7 June 2010 (PDT)</div>

Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Talk:Alex_Antonow&diff=4723 2010-06-07T18:12:24Z

<p>Romero: </p> <hr /> <div>nice job Alex, feel free to steal from our practice pages to figure out how to do subheadings, etc..<br /> --Peggy Piper 20:32, 3 June 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> Nice! And the varying star looks like our data too! That's a good sign. :) --[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 11:12, 7 June 2010 (PDT)</div>

Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Talk:Peggy_Piper&diff=4722 2010-06-07T18:09:31Z

<p>Romero: Created page with 'Very nice, Mrs. P! I did lol at the cow births (I didn't know they came from cocoons! And I wanna be a vet. :D)Hope the trip goes well! --~~~~'</p> <hr /> <div>Very nice, Mrs. P! I did lol at the cow births (I didn't know they came from cocoons! And I wanna be a vet. :D)Hope the trip goes well! --[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 11:09, 7 June 2010 (PDT)</div>

Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=File:Variable_Star.jpg&diff=4698 2010-06-02T21:24:25Z

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Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Talk:Joey_Romero&diff=4694 2010-06-02T03:14:33Z

<p>Romero: </p> <hr /> <div>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 [[Image:Star.jpg]]!! Make sure you sign your comments --[[User:Piper|Piper]] 21:19, 30 May 2010 (PDT)&lt;BR&gt;<br /> 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!&lt;BR&gt;P.S. I like the star better than the heart anyway!&lt;BR&gt; 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. <br /> --[[User:Romero|Romero]] 14:53, 31 May 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> 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.--[[User:Piper|Piper]] 16:47, 31 May 2010 (PDT)&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Yep! SDSS was what I was thinking of. Are there any other things I gotta do?--[[User:Romero|Romero]] 09:46, 1 June 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> 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)<br /> <br /> 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)<br /> <br /> 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. --[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 20:14, 1 June 2010 (PDT)</div>

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Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Talk:Rebecca_Rosignolo&diff=4676 2010-06-02T01:12:33Z

<p>Romero: </p> <hr /> <div>whats up!?<br /> <br /> == CALTECH!!!! ==<br /> <br /> I am super excited to go to California!<br /> <br /> Very nice Rebecca, you are also awesome and I [[Image:Heart.jpg]] you too, but how 'bout a nice image to pretty things up. <br /> guess how I add my signature and date right here? --[[User:Piper|Piper]] 21:08, 30 May 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> Woo-hoo!! You moved it all and changed the main practice page back, good job!--Peggy Piper 22:23, 31 May 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> yeah. what else do i have to do!? --[[User:Rosignolo|Rebecca Ann Rosignolo (:]] 22:32, 31 May 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> Hey guys. Rebecca, I like your dog! :D Lol I tried to upload a picture of me, and it turned out GIGANTIC. Like, just the top of my head took up the full screen. Hahah so I took it down. So yea, I thought I'd comment since Mrs. Piper said '''PLEASE COMMENT''' on other people's pages. :)--[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 10:20, 1 June 2010 (PDT) <br /> <br /> A giant head sounds scarey. You should be able to resize your images before you upload them using microsoft picture manager - edit pictures - resize. to replace your current giant pics, click on image, choose to reload image and upload your smaller one, wiki will keep both versions but desplay the most recent. Nice link to LWN music Rebecca! was that there before? --Peggy Piper 10:51, 1 June 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> hahahaha! ella bean read that!! isnt she ahdorable?! joey, i could help you figure out the picture thing. when you upload a picture there should be a box underneath that says dimensions, and you can change it. or you can send me yer picture and ill upload it for you! i read your page, wayy better than mine. darn it! Mrs. Piper, you making a page??!?? --[[User:Rosignolo|Rebecca Ann Rosignolo (:]] 12:03, 1 June 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> I like the idea of Mrs. Piper's own page! :) and Mrs. P, I like the picture you added with all of us! This Wiki is coming along nicely! --[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 18:12, 1 June 2010 (PDT)</div>

Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Talk:Rebecca_Rosignolo&diff=4650 2010-06-01T17:20:12Z

<p>Romero: /* CALTECH!!!! */</p> <hr /> <div>whats up!?<br /> <br /> == CALTECH!!!! ==<br /> <br /> I am super excited to go to California!<br /> <br /> Very nice Rebecca, you are also awesome and I [[Image:Heart.jpg]] you too, but how 'bout a nice image to pretty things up. <br /> guess how I add my signature and date right here? --[[User:Piper|Piper]] 21:08, 30 May 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> Woo-hoo!! You moved it all and changed the main practice page back, good job!--Peggy Piper 22:23, 31 May 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> yeah. what else do i have to do!? --[[User:Rosignolo|Rebecca Ann Rosignolo (:]] 22:32, 31 May 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> Hey guys. Rebecca, I like your dog! :D Lol I tried to upload a picture of me, and it turned out GIGANTIC. Like, just the top of my head took up the full screen. Hahah so I took it down. So yea, I thought I'd comment since Mrs. Piper said '''PLEASE COMMENT''' on other people's pages. :)--[[User:Romero|Joey Romero]] 10:20, 1 June 2010 (PDT)</div>

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Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Talk:Joey_Romero&diff=4630 2010-06-01T16:46:09Z

<p>Romero: </p> <hr /> <div>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 [[Image:Star.jpg]]!! Make sure you sign your comments --[[User:Piper|Piper]] 21:19, 30 May 2010 (PDT)&lt;BR&gt;<br /> 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!&lt;BR&gt;P.S. I like the star better than the heart anyway!&lt;BR&gt; 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. <br /> --[[User:Romero|Romero]] 14:53, 31 May 2010 (PDT)<br /> <br /> 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.--[[User:Piper|Piper]] 16:47, 31 May 2010 (PDT)&lt;BR&gt;<br /> Yep! SDSS was what I was thinking of. Are there any other things I gotta do?--[[User:Romero|Romero]] 09:46, 1 June 2010 (PDT)</div>

Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Talk:Joey_Romero&diff=4609 2010-05-31T22:47:45Z

<p>Romero: </p> <hr /> <div>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 [[Image:Star.jpg]]!! Make sure you sign your comments --[[User:Piper|Piper]] 21:19, 30 May 2010 (PDT)&lt;BR&gt;<br /> 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!&lt;BR&gt;P.S. I like the star better than the heart anyway!&lt;BR&gt; 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. <br /> --[[User:Romero|Romero]] 14:53, 31 May 2010 (PDT)</div>

Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Talk:Joey_Romero&diff=4608 2010-05-31T22:47:27Z

<p>Romero: </p> <hr /> <div>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 [[Image:Star.jpg]]!! Make sure you sign your comments --[[User:Piper|Piper]] 21:19, 30 May 2010 (PDT)&lt;BR&gt;<br /> 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!&lt;BR&gt;P.S. I like the star better than the heart anyway!&lt;BR&gt; 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. <br /> --[[User:Romero|Romero]] 14:53, 31 May 2010 (PDT)Romero&lt;</div>

Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=Talk:Joey_Romero&diff=4593 2010-05-31T21:53:58Z

<p>Romero: </p> <hr /> <div>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 [[Image:Star.jpg]]!! Make sure you sign your comments --[[User:Piper|Piper]] 21:19, 30 May 2010 (PDT)&lt;BR&gt;<br /> 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!&lt;BR&gt;P.S. I like the star better than the heart anyway!<br /> --[[User:Romero|Romero]] 14:53, 31 May 2010 (PDT)Romero</div>

Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=File:Stephan%27s_Quintet.jpg&diff=4541 2010-05-31T01:53:34Z

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Romero https://vmcoolwiki.ipac.caltech.edu/index.php?title=File:Stephan%27s_Quintet.jpg&diff=4493 2010-05-18T21:00:52Z

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