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Originally Posted by siriusastronomer
Hale_Bopp and Andromeda,
out of curiousity, do either of you guys know Julia Thompson? she's at the unviersity of pitts. astro and physics dept, i do believe. Last summer she did a Research Experience for Teachers where I was working (quite obviously i wasn't one of the teachers but we all worked in the same room). I remember hearing the teachers mention Fermilab a few times, just wondering if you'd done the same thing they were doing?
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Maybe. The thing is a lot of people come through the astro computing lab looking for someone and start up conversations I end up getting drawn into. They all seem to know who I am and assume I know who they are (why I've no idea) and I've gotta admit most of the time I'm too shy to ask.
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Originally Posted by Hale_Bopp
Just curious...is it an SDSS quasar? U of Pittsburgh is a participating institution in the SDSS.
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Yes it is an SDSS quasar. It was supposedly observed last week by a grad student at the MMT. I don't know the official name of it, however, because I might be tempted to look into what's known about it and such. So I only find that out at the end.
As for what happened yesterday- I finished up the spectrum, the only really new stuff worth mentioning is some Fe I and Mangenese. Then I cleaned up the bad pixels and such and tried to print only to discover it wouldn't. So another one of those "grad students figuring out what the high school kid" moments happened, this time only to find that it wasn't my fault (yay!) because the printers were all off line due to renovation. This led to the evolution of my new theory that every institution in the known universe is perpetually plagued by printer problems and if I was actually smart I would find work as a printer-fixer person.
The day ended early because my boyfriend's prom was later that day and I had to get my hair done. A lot of people ended up doing a double take on this news because we were sitting in the grad student lounge at the time and I don't think that's something you normally hear there! :wink: