CM's+November+19,+2007

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Today I updated my logbook from last week. I had to add the last page, because I didn't finish it on Friday in class. I also took some time to read a few more pages in //In darkness born.// I'm still getting through the introductory material, but it's still helping. I'm getting a better handle on astronomy and basic facts about stars. The next chapter is about star formation, so that will probably be very helpful with more in-depth information.
 * November 18, 2007**

Today CC and I picked up where we left off on Friday with our discussion on limits. This time TL informed us of the limits on the equation, though. We learned that the limits of this equation are between 8 and 1000. CC had to explain TL's reasoning further to me, because I haven't had this math yet. I think I understand the basics of this now, though. I also continued to update my notes pages. I started the notes page for //In darkness born,// as I read more from it last night. I also finished the descriptions of the three different clusters from Schroeder's paper. Tonight I read more of my book, and updated the notes page some more. It's very easy to understand, thus far, and is providing me with some really good background information on stars and their characteristics.
 * November 19, 2007**

Today I talked with DL about the e-mail that I sent him, which was apparently blank, though I did actually write something on it. I don't know what happened. We chatted about the galaxy typing questions that I had earlier in the week. I also never got his e-mail response to that question, so I quess I've been a little down in the technology department this last week. It was good to get a chance to talk about that, though. Apparently galaxy typing is a fairly easy task, and I just need to research it a little more in depth to figure out how to do it properly. DL told me that wikipedia had a good set of instructions on how to go about doing this, but when I went to go look this up, I could not find what I wanted. There were no results for any of the searches that I did. I will have to look further next week, because we had a short day today, and that was all I had time for in class. We also talked more about the upcoming trip to Austin, Texas. It looks like its a go, which is exciting!
 * November 20, 2007**

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