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= Week of October 5th-9th = 

7th of October
I went into the lab for 2 hours and about 15 minutes and got a couple of scans but not many. When I first put the new sample of gold in the sample holder and tried to scan the scope was initially very drifty so I was unable to get any images for the first 20 minutes or so. When I was scanning I wasn't really getting descent images that were consistently near the same area so I didn't try shooting the laser. If I had I wouldn't have been able to find the area that I had been scanning before I shot the laser. There wasn't a problem that prevented me from getting good images other than the usually things such as driftiness, a bad tip, or just a matter of not being able to find a good area to scan.

9th of October
I went into the lab for 2 hours and I switched out the gold sample. I have started changing out samples everytime I go into the lab. Usually I go in and Becky has annealed a piece of gold for me so I just switch out the samples and discard the old piece of gold. Today when I went to scan the scope was extremely drifty. This amount of driftiness lasted the entire time while I was there. I was able to take some scans, but the images all looked like they were distorted and stretched. I don't know if there is a way to process the images afterwards to account for such large amounts of drift. I was unable to get that many scans. Because of the amount of driftiness I again was unable to shoot the laser. I am not sure why the scope has been so drifty lately, I may spend a day next week just making sure everything with the scope is correct ( I will ask Annette). I also have not had time yet to read the two articles Becky gave me.

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