Astronomy and Coffee

By parts. Driver's license: when to my driving lesson. The details of driving in Germany are quite different from driving in Brazil, or mostly anywhere in the world. A mix of ultra-patience and rush (while you may have to wait long behind a slow bike on the street - nothing against that - you're advised to drive as close to the allowed limit as possible, for the sake of the traffic flow ...). Also the exam is EXTREMELY hard and some faults end your exam at the moment. Anyway, my first lesson was a disaster, then I'm having lessons daily to be able to approve this test. The main point is when you're concentrated, it's OK, when driving goes to "background mode", then it's over ...

Also helping a friend on a very difficult situation. Her mother had cancer, but was treated and was "under control", even though the doctors could not quite find the root of it. Wednesday night she went to the hospital. Thursday they found a pretty bad picture, then we had to help our friend on finding a flight home ASAP (we did it for last saturday). And on friday, much sooner than the doctors expected, she passed away, what meant a lot of emotional support for our friend.

Now work: back on trying to make SExtractor work on this particular cluster. Problem is when it finds some objects, it detects them with a terrible deblending. When you improve the deblending reducing the "BACK_SIZE", not only the photometry gets affected, but some of the objects detected before (as center of the large composed object) is not detected ... gotta fine tune it yet. Suggestions are welcome!