To remind me...

( Lectures on in Canberra (incl Neil Gaiman) )

Brain is hurting over trying to deal with normalizing gaussians and convolution (I may have whinged about this before). I do have convolution and it appears to be not be squishing the fuck out of things, but I still don't quite trust it. I think it should have more data points to the curve, but I can't get IDL to agree with me. Sigh...

Weekend was fun, though I think a weekend without going to Sydney, may be a good idea. Ok, so it has only been the past two weekends, but still... I would like to know why on both the occasions that we attempted to travel through the tunnel under Sydney Harbour, we ended up with a slight unplanned detour and a trip over the Harbour Bridge. Still got to the right places but it was a trifle disconcerting.

Have now touched ocean on both sides of the continent:)

Lets see if this works

( Lets see if this works )

What should appear (under the cut cause I'm not that evil) is a graph (jpg) with a near infrared spectrum of a star with a model spectrum under it. I'll kill it [edit: now killed] and add a link (if it is deciding to work... mutter mutter yahoo) if it doesn't... Is ok (allowing for the silly white gap at the base), and fingers crossed, not too large. Link added cause I could...
I think a very large percentage of the past two years has gone into that image (or at least images of that type - this is the only one starting to look ok)... And it is still not quite right (I wont inflict those details on you).

But it does look like the star...