Astronomy and Coffee

Back from vacations!

First official day of work of the year!

Official because I've been working since I've got from Spain.

Goal, reducing FORS/VLT data of one of our clusters to have multi-band photometry! Problem? Reducing a raw data run, from almost scratch! Fortunately the bias and flat was already ready (even though if it was for a IGL analysis the flat quality is lousy, but since is photometry of small galaxies, it's not a problem).

But, the day was actually spent on paper work and preparation to the DFG workshop of thursday and friday. This workshop decides who gets money from the DFG/SPP program. They take us for two half days to "defend" our project with a poster and talking to the referees if they want to know something. Good points of that, you can solve problems in real time and at friday evening they will have already defined who gets and who doesn't get money ... bad point ... A LOT OF PRESSURE!! Anyway!

So, thursday I'm going there!

Today some data preparation and reduction!

posted by Cris Da Rocha @ 11:59 PM