Talk:Mrs. Thomas

2010-07-29T22:03:32Z

Thomas:

to put an image up, give it a name, notice that when I leave this one as example there is no image

[[Image:North Middle School Astronomy crew.jpg]]

but I have already uploaded one called Phoenix.jpg, so the wiki finds it and uses it

[[Image:Phoenix.jpg]]

later, by looking at other wikis, I found out how I could size, center and name images

[[File:cows.jpg|600px|thumb|center|Newly emerged cows]]

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2010-07-29T20:33:07Z

Thomas:

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2010-07-29T16:43:06Z

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Welcome to our Wiki page. We will be posting some of the things we have been doing/researching this summer in preparation for our visit to SSC. Olivia and Drew have been reviewing basic astronomy concepts with an emphasis on infrared.

Variability of the Mid-IR Sky Current Research Activities

2010-07-29T16:21:30Z

Thomas: /* North Middle School, Great Falls, Montana */

=[[Variability of the Mid-IR Sky Proposal]]=

'''Here is the link to our Spring 2010 proposal http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/teacher_research/r4-variab/variabProposal.pdf'''

=[[Variability of the Mid-IR Sky Summer visit]]=

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]]'''

= [[Generating Light Curves - APT and Excel ]] =

You can find info to help you practice using APT to generate light curves on this page.

[[File:test stars comp.jpg]]

== Standard Deviation for Dummies ==

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.

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.

Formula: [[image:stddev.jpg]]

Standard Deviation
standard deviation formula

where Σ = Sum of
X = Individual score
M = Mean (average) of all scores
N = Sample size (Number of scores)

'''Example: Find the Standard deviation of 3,2,1,1,and 3'''

Step 1: Calculate the mean (average) and deviation.
{| border="1"
|-
|'''X'''
|'''M'''
|'''(X-M)'''
|'''(X-M)2'''
|-
|3
|2
|1
|1
|-
|2
|2
|0
|0
|-
|1
|2
|(-1)
|1
|-
|-
|1
|2
|(-1)
|1
|-
|3
|2
|1
|1
|-
|}

Step 2:Find the sum of (X-M)2
1+0+1+1+1 = 4

Step 3:N = 5, the total number of values.Find N-1.
5-1 = 4

Step 4:Now find Standard Deviation using the formula.
√4/√4 = 1

= '''Individual School Pages''' =
== '''Communicating on Wiki!!!''' ==
Wiki will tell you when anyone makes an edit or comment to any page if you 
 -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
 -go to the pages you want to "watch" and click on on the Watch tab, you'll get an email if there is a change to these pages
 -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
 -'''Please''' make comments using the discussion tab on anything and everything right now!
 -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.

== [[Lincoln-Way North High School in Frankfort, Illinois]] ==
[[Image:Phoenix.jpg]][[Image:LWN.jpg]][[Image:Phoenix.jpg]] 
'''Teacher - Peggy Piper - Students - Joey R. - Rebecca R. - Justin C.''' 
Here are our light curves with standard deviations for the three test stars using Source Model B. From top to bottom in each graph, they are stars #1, #2, and #3. 

'''Mrs. P Question to you - which aperture background should we choose? Why?
 

Joey's Data for Aperture 3, Background 10 20 
[[File:Joey 3 10 20.jpg|600px|thumb|center|Joey aperture 3 background 10-20]]

Rebecca's Data for Aperture 5, Background 5 10
 
[[File:Rebecca5510.jpg|600px|thumb|center|Rebecca aperture 5 background 5-10]]

Joey's Data for Aperture 10, Background 12 20 
[[File:Joey 10 12 20.jpg|600px|thumb|center|Joey aperture 10 background 12-20]]

===[[LWN Data Files | CLICK HERE for our working data]]===
 
===[[LWN Student Practice Pages]]===
 

=== A Present for Mr. DeCoster from Mrs. Piper ===

I broke my mini tripod, so these are not so carefully balanced on all sorts of odds and ends!
 

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!
 by Mr DeCoster

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)

[[File:MarsLowell061310.jpg|500px|thumb|center|Mars in Leo from Lowell Observatory June 13, 2010]]

[[File:MarsGC061310.jpg|500px|thumb|center|Mars (bottom middle) in Leo from Grand Canyon June 14, 2010]]

[[File:MarsCoSprings061110.jpg|500px|thumb|center|Mars (top left) in Leo from Grand Canyon June 11, 2010]]

== [[Niles West High School in Skokie, Illinois]] ==

Teacher - Rich DeCoster 
Student - Alex 
Student - Aneesh
 

===[[Identifying Objects in ds9: a Pictorial Tutorial by Alex Antonow]]===
 

Here are two light curves by Alex 
[[image:Var Star with Avg.jpg|thumb|600px|center]] 
[[Media:APT_star_1_and_2.xls]] 

 

===[[Niles West Student Observing Pages]]===

 
===[[Niles West Student Practice Pages]]===
 

== [[North Middle School, Great Falls, Montana]] ==

click on title above to get page to edit

Teacher - Beth Thomas
Student - Drew B.
Student - Olivia R.
 

=Summer Discussion Topics=

==How Does Spitzer Work==

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.

Rules:

# come up with and list 5 facts (not here, on History/Mission page!)
# you can't repeat someone else's fact (if you do this soon, its easier - poor Joey's out of town til Sat!)
# 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)

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!

===[[History/Mission]]===

===[[Physical Aspects]]===

===[[IR Channels]]===
 

==[[Variable Stars]]==

http://aavso.org/vstar/
 

==[[Our Glorious Leaders]]==

Most Definitely a couple of Cool Dudes

[[File:cooldudes.jpg]]

[[Media:DonSteveArt2008.pdf | Here is link to ‘‘DARK MATTER’’ IN ACCRETION DISKS by Steve Howell and Don Hoard that is of interest]]
 

=Other items=
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 "editing" status here. Is this something we use instead of email, or is it a place to create documents that we edit together?
Rich
ps-Should something like this be in the "discussion" tab rather than the "article" tab?

Hi Rich - no, you're not causing confusion, you're doing it exactly right! These pages under "current research activities" are really sort of "shared white boards". The other half of the wiki (under "research tools") 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 "current research activity" 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)

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2010-07-15T05:07:26Z

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2010-07-15T04:40:36Z

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2010-07-15T04:37:16Z

Thomas: uploaded a new version of "File:Photo on 2010-07-14 at 11.37.jpg": Drew, Mrs. Thomas and Olivia...collaborating on a summer morning at Barnes and Nobles.

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2010-07-15T04:33:54Z

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