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Today we recieved an email back from Greg Rudnick. He told us that he had not reduced the IRAC data but we could do some type of error analysis. It would deal with how the small amounts of error that each data point had was amplified when we put the numbers into the formulas. I am going to teach CM about how error is amplified when we put numbers through formulas.
 * February 25**

While we have not recieved any data for error analysis so I decided to finish up the excel sheet of relation of lunar and solar eclipses. I will complete the excel sheet and then pair up the lunar and solar eclipses.
 * February 26**

Today I finished the excel sheet. I looked at two decades. One from 1981-1990 and another from 2001-2010 to compare two different times. In every single instance, there is a strong relation of a lunar eclipse to a solar eclipse and vise-versa. It was about even if the solar eclipse appeared before the lunar eclipse or if the lunar eclipse appeared first. This tells me that a solar eclipse does not depend on a lunar eclipse to occur, but there will always be a matching lunar eclipse with a solar eclipse. Sometimes a solar eclipse will have two lunar eclipses paired with it and sometimes a lunar eclipse will have two solar eclipses with it.
 * February 27**

Today we did an elab as a class together. The purpose is to get the elab program to analyze a bunch of data already prepared and to see how long it takes the servers to analyze the data. The grid spot I am assigned to is (Oct 07, Swift Local). I set up the elab and it is currently analyzing the data, but it will take awhile for the program to analyze all the data. We will put the times it took on a grid box linked to the main page later.
 * February 28**

Today I put in the time it took for the analysis to compute. It was about 1-2hrs and was successful. I will put my results up later on Monday. I did not have alot of time today through one reason and another.
 * February 29**