Today we took the last course in Web Training at NUIG organised as previously by Staff Training Office and IT Department here at NUIG. This time we managed to create a “final product” sites from the ground and manage further maintenance of them by using well-known RSS Feeds. We also tied our hand on some PHP basics and managed to advance our knowledge to the point that we would be able fully grasp all the possibilities that our local CMS can provide for the Web Editing.
Monthly Archive for November, 2007
January 2008 is going to be quite exciting in Galway since there are two quite relevant meetings happening here.
High Temperature Astrochemistry
A meeting of the Astrophysical Chemistry Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Royal Astronomical Society will be hosted by the Centre for Astronomy, National University of Ireland Galway, Monday 7th and Tuesday 8th January, 2008 Further information is available from the meeting website at: http://www.astrochemistry.org.uk/galway_meeting.htm
The 5th JETSET school on ‘High performance computing in Astrophysics
The School will address the methods used to simulate astrophysical jets and to derive useful information from large datasets, focusing on techniques involving high performance computing.
Further information is available from the school website at: http://www.dias.ie/jetsetschool/
I’m going to participate in both of them since they address some of the issues of my current project here in Galway. The other important aspect of these meeting is that they both are going to be hosted by Centre for Astronomy at NUIG!
I’ve been trying to make presentable cubes for our observations of Wu Core done at JCMT with ACSIS. So far I’ve managed to produce nice, smooth cubes of data from HCN (3-2), HCO+(3-2) and C17O data (all the current dataset).
Please note that these steps are presented for an example and need not to be fully followed. Almost all of the parameters in each step are quite subjective and are done to satisfy my taste.
There is more extensive document located here: http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/JCMT/spectral_line/data_reduction/acsisdr/
Here is the sequence to produce the final cubes using STARLINK packages SMURF, KAPPA: Continue reading ‘JCMT ACSIS Data’
The news that the northern Chile was hit by an earthquake (14th of November 2007) was quite worrisome to me since we as a nation (Armenians) suffered from a devastating quake in 1988 and I could only hope that the damages are not so extensive. But it was quite a relief to learn that things were not that dramatic at all, in fact they made a good recovery.The second reason that I was quite worried was the simple fact that the town of Antofagasta where the quake felt quite strong is near to the one of the most modern astronomical facilities in the world - European Southern Observatory’sVLT(i) facility. This site holds one of the most important instruments build recently - ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). Continue reading ‘Earthquake in Chile’
