Friday, May 7, 2010

Muttering imprecations all the while.

This has been an interesting week. The spectrographic spectrometer failed to produce conclusive evidence of the Zeeman effect, so we had to use an interferometer, a very high resolution imager. We took some photos, got our pattern, and figured that this would be a piece of cake since all we have to do is put it in the computer, let it do its thing, and it'll spit out an analysis of the ring system created by the interferometer... oh. The computer's broken. So, we had to find images which can easily show the effect. And this all has to be done with analog film, so you don't know until you develop the film. Or - like I did one time - you failed to secure the new film properly, and find out that all those photos you took didn't expose onto new film...

I honestly don't want to think about it.

I have pictures. I am happy.

Thank you and good night.

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