Summer "Visit" - 2020 - Spider Team

Quotes

• [student:] Some important qualities to have as an astronomer is patience, ambition, and open-mindedness. Working with tedious data becomes frustrating certain times especially when there are instances you mess things up. With the creative process being so up and down, it’s imperative to be patient during hard times and work through it, even when the results aren’t what you were expecting. Furthermore, with being open-minded, it’s primarily aimed at collaborations and feedback since someone might have different opinions on your research or questions on why you didn’t explore something. With that it’s important to take everything into consideration and keep working.
• [student:] Allowing yourself to be confused and feel like you know nothing is an important quality to be an astronomer. Being patient and also being open to learning anything new that comes your way are also important qualities.
• [student:] Before the experience with NITARP, I wasn’t really educated about the astronomy field, but I just found it amusing. Now after I know what kind of work they do, I am even more interested even if it can be a little confusing.
• [student:] The most important and interesting thing I did was looking at CMDs and CCDs for each cluster of IC417. This mini-project really revealed to me that the NS and its BPI14 cluster are special when looking at their excesses in comparison to their cluster neighbors. This step essentially proved to me, scientifically, that we are digging for treasure in the right place, and that was a cool thing to see materialize in front of me.
• [student:] Real astronomy is mostly looking at data and numbers. I didn’t realize we would be using so much math these last few months, so it’s important to remember how closely math and science correlate.

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