Summer "Visit" - 2020 - Spider Team

Quotes

• [student:] I ended up getting way farther along in the process than I expected. That’s what I appreciated about working in small groups. I found we worked together really well and asked each other for help if we needed it.
• [student:] Astronomers have to be incredibly patient. They can’t be deterred by failure because failing and having to start again is inevitable.
• [student:] Astronomers definitely have to be hard working and dedicated to their study. They have to be passionate about the data they are working with, and smart enough to understand it well. They also have to be good communicators, as it involves a lot of collaboration with peers. It’s also important that they are good at explaining their findings to the public, such as in a scientific journal.
• [student:] It definitely changed the way I look at astronomy. I guess I never really thought about what else the field had to offer besides looking through telescopes. Now that I’ve gotten a feel for some of the work, it definitely involves a lot of data analysis and paperwork, too.
• [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.

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