Chelen Johnson
SIRXS (SEIP IR Excess Survey) : looking for IR excesses around stars found within the Spitzer Enhanced Imaging Products (SEIP) source list.
Watching the students present the research we had been working on the last year was absolutely the best part of the experience for me. They made me so proud
I think that the most surprising thing about it was how young everyone was! I absolutely did not expect that, maybe because the amateur community is so much older by comparison, and is mainly composed of retired people.
I have begun to grasp the mind-boggling amount of data being produced by this [astronomical] infrastructure.