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Nov 26th

Today I found a great number of FITS files in my school computer which I was able to open and work with on the CCDOPS program. I then refered back to the Milestone Progress report from the previous astro-imaging project to learn how to eliminate Cool and Hot pixels in the images.

Nov 27th

Today I began learning how to stack images in the CCDOPS. I did this by opening three different images of the same image and eliminating their Hot and Cool pixels. I then saved them in a seperate folder so that they would be not be confused with other files. Then I stacked them by clicking the "Utility" and "Average Images." This is as far as I got in the process before I ran out of time. But hopefully I will be able to finish the process tomorrow.

Nov 28th

Today I continued learning how to stack images in CCDOPS. DL explained to me that In each finished image, there are three seperate image files, including three red files, two blue files, and one green file. Therefore in order to create an image, you must average three red files together (first elminating their hot and cool pixels), then average the blue files together in a seperate image, and finally average the single green image, so that you now have a single red image, blue image, and green image. From there you must save the images as TIFF files so that you can open them in photoshop and finish them.

Nov 29th

Today some of my classmates allowed me to download some of the images they hav taken at Jordan Hall (Notre Dame). It was a rather large file so most of the class was spent downloading it.

Dec 1st

Today I downloaded the same image files that I had gotten at school to my home computer.