First Lab-Exercise: The Hinode Satellite

Hello everyone! It's time for the first lab, which will span a few sessions, with the first held this Thursday at 14:15-16:00. Remember to bring your laptop please!

First off is the Hinode lab - here we'll be going through the process of acquiring data from the Hinode satellite which observes the sun, reducing this data, and finally doing some analysis of it. This should hopefully give you some training with IDL, show you how observations generally are a messy thing, and how data needs to be polished before we can do actual science with it.

First off however, to get access to the intitute's machines which you will be running IDL on remotely, as well as for some start-up info on IDL, see here. I would ask you to try and get through the section "Accessing IDL" in the linked document before the lab as it is a prerequisite to do anything else later. I realize this is somewhat short notice, and if there are problems we'll deal with them in person, but at least attempting to do it beforehand will save a lot of trouble. The lab-exercises themselves can be found here. Please read them before the lab-session. If there are any question at all, don't hesitate to contact me at ainar.drews@astro.uio.no, or drop by my office - first door to the right coming in the main entrance. See you Thursday!

Cheers, Ainar.

Note: The pdf's have been updated, the directory for the source command was incorrect, and has been updated.