Yes, I am the one who gets to talk about our OD report party. Yay!
We were so happy this morning that we ate pizza and partied until 1. And then we slept. I woke up at 10 by my alarm because I planned a super productive morning practicing piano. But I still felt like partying, so I decided to scroll on my phone for 45 minutes.
Practice eventually started around 12, in which I was trying to shape the last big part of my talent show. With the talent show approaching, all of us are trying to steal the keyboard room even for five minutes (and I am not kidding, because Ian entered the keyboard room when I left, which was 15 minutes before lecture). We probably all thought OD was the end of SSP….
The afternoon passed fast because we were all happy and happy time flies fast. We were all enjoying our happy coding time, totally reading the worksheet thoroughly. Gio, Ava and I finished our progress check before 5, and then after that, we started admiring our OD report.
Now, the really interesting things started happening after dinner and the morning after, because we finally started analyzing and interpreting our data with the pressure of the afternoon presentation. Many groups pointed out the periodic oscillations of perihelion and apehelion of our asteroids and potential sources of other behavior, like a sudden change in orbit size (we suspected it was due to approaching planets).
I also started processing our pretty image, taken with SII, H-alpha, OIII filters:
This is not the final draft, by the way. Photoshop is where all the magic happens. And before I figured out how pixel math works, our image looked horribly….horrible.
And we can process more/ analyze more of our asteroid when we go back home, because all of it is freeware!
I also practiced more piano…. While I was doing that, Arrival was played in the classroom. According to Amber, it was horrifying.
That marked the end of our day.
Hi, my name is Jasmine and I’m from China, Dongguan. During my spare time I like sleeping, playing piano, stargazing and post-processing pretty images!
