Astronomy and Coffee

Today was a images day. Fixed the gap problem of the THELI reduction and combined minimizing the gaps and corrected the WCS. Doesn't seem much but takes time.

On the "computer side". Trying to convert the SDSS backup from EXT2 to NTFS so that it can be properly read by the MS-SQL (still can't believe the mirrors of SDSS are meant to be used with an MS soft ... free software, please!!). That took time, and will take time. First the computer meant for that, my computer from the institute in Goettingen, reboots after trying to copy one of the 40 GB files (they are 60 ... and I need to take things out to another disk, format and bring them back).

Express install on another computer and now is copying, just hope it doesn't collapse also ... trying to put on yet another computer, let's see if it works now.

Also some reading about non-parametric morphological classification (CAS, Gini, ...) that will happen for some time also (not much).

Tomorrow: photometric calibration of the FORS2 new images, run sextractor and produce a matched catalogue. Select postage stamps, run multi-component modeling and finish this part to get to the analysis (not all today, just until the let the modeling running).