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Today I worked further on formulas for our project. The last main formula involved converting total luminosity into Star Formation Rate. I found that SFR is just total luminosity times a constant. SFR is measured in solar mass per year. So I added the equation to the formulas page and explained each part of the equation and the units for each variable. I asked Dr. L about how we can find the integration used to find c for total luminosity. He told us that it is usually done by computer although he gave us an explanation how we could do it by hand. He is going to show us the applications that we will use to find out the area under the SED curve.
 * Nov 26 07**

Today I worked more with CM. She is working on outlining previous papers on our project. I asked her to help explain the three different clusters that we are looking at and what changes she has made to her notes and our glossary page. She told me how each cluster is different in some ways and the difference between galaxies that are members of the cluster and galaxies that are just present in the cluster. Dr. L also explained to me how to use Microsoft exel to use a data list and graphical analysis tool to find the integral of the SED curve.
 * Nov 27 07**

Today Dr. L talked to us about the trip this January. He also explained to us about what the next three weeks of class will be like. Me and CM are going to be working on the exel data left from last year's work. We will be figuring out how the previous group had set up their exel spreadsheets and how they got their data points. We worked on one of the exel sheets and made a list of things that we didn't know at all and how each column was set up.
 * Nov 28 07**

Today CM and I worked further into the spreadsheets that were made last year. We figured out most of the information on the spreadsheet including morphology key and the organization for their spreadsheets. We know now how to reproduce the data and check last year's work. We still have some things to figure out including Vmag, Jmag, Kmag, and Imag. We will look this up further.
 * Nov 29 07**