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Monday, November 19, 2007
I've communicated with all the students and the days that they would prefer to observe next week. I emailed Joe telling him about all the times each person would like to observe and hopefully everything will be ok. I'm planning on going on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, myself. On Monday, I'm hoping for a day to learn about the equipment and how to work with everything for my observing for Wednesday and Thursday. On Wednesday and Thursday, I'll be observing our star V Cet! ID will be going with me on Monday, to observe with me, if we can go. SG, MM, and CM, will go on Wednesday to observe with me, which will probably be a go since Joe and I were planning on going to observe V Cet anyways.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Yesterday I was studying the V Cet star a little bit for my observations on Wednesday and Thursday of next week. I was looking at the spectral type and it says it's M3e. I still don't know what it means, so I emailed Dr. L. He only knows that it's a class M star and the 3e part just makes it a more distinct class. I'll have to ask Joe what the classification fully means because I couldn't find any information on what specific class M3e might be. I'll try a little bit more today, but I'll still email Joe about it.

I haven't heard from Joe about observations yet, but I'm hoping I'll know soon!

Dr. L also handed out an entry form for the science fair happening in march, and we have to fill this out and sign it.

I passed out the entry forms!! :) Go me!!

Now I shall attempt to fill it out.

I've also created a page with the questions that Dr. L gave to me that I will be putting up on my main page, dealing with the star V Cet. But click here to see it if you wish --> V Cet Questions

So I went and added links to my graphics that I got from other websites. So I can't get in trouble for it anymore! Yeah! :]

Wednesday, November 21, 2007
I've been trying to research about comparison stars. This will enable me to compare my star, V Cet, with another star so that I can determine magnitudes without some sort of equipment. I'll probably start looking through the book Joe gave me to find out the best way to do this.

I emailed Dr. L about the forms he gave us. I'm not sure if we are suppose to be filling them out or not and if I'm going to be doing this with the two other students, N and K.

Friday, November 23, 2007
I received an email back from Dr. L saying that I should only be placing my name on the science form.

Tonight, I plan on reading from __Observing Variable Stars__ to learn some information about comparison stars since I kind of let that one fall after Wednesday.