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Monday, November 26th, 2007
I had a talk with SG and TL and got a new assignment: we are to find the speed of Ceres and the size as well and use this information to find out how much time it will occult a star for. Sophia and I discoverd that the size is 950 km in diameter. It also has an orbital speed of approximately 17.882 km/s. We are to use this information to figure out for how long it will cover a star.

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Everyone that is going to go research at the Jordan Hall Observatory crowded around CN's computer and logged onto the New Mexico Skies telescope website and scheduled some time to remote observe at Jordan Hall. We will be going tomorrow night. SG also did a fantastic job and with the help of SL discovered the correct equation (and answer) to the question posed in the above post. I will copy her log book entry or link you to it tomorrow when she puts it up.

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
SG is finishing up the equations, putting them in powerpoint. I will post a link to her findings when she posts them. Today I talked with TL and CN about what to expect for tonight. I am trying to find out where an asteroid is so that perhaps SG and I could find one tonight when we go remote observing. I am having trouble though, and have learned that this may just be a night to learn how things work, and we could get some help finding an asteroid when we get there tonight.

Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Yesterday we went observing at Jordan Hall at Notre Dame. We had a lot of success! We found Ceres in the sky and took a lot of pictures of them. We took a few at different exposures and took a few in color at the end, and ID will probably be using them over with the Astroimaging group. We also took pictures of a galaxy that Ceres was near, and attempted to watch it occult a star but unfortunately had no success as the large asteroid was moving in the wrong direction to watch it occult. We still got a lot of information though and I will be trying to use that today.

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