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Last Group Meeting
See previous announcement.
New things brought up were:
Happy new year, everyone. I hope your break was nice. Everything we've taken so far for the new set of galaxies has been reduced and the results look wonderful. We still have lots of work ahead of us though. The 12CO data especially need help, particularly for UGC2855, which has none. Several sources were only observed last spring so I'd like at least one recent map to mix in. We have lots of good CO time coming in February, so be ready.
Two sources that were knocked off the list early in the semester, NGC4527 and NGC3593, will most likely reappear on the schedule since their data looked pretty good so far.
I strongly urge you use the Observer's Notebook pages to record pointing, weather and observing conditions. It is our only way to know why you did not observe, for example. Plus, knowing the variations in peak brightness of RLeo is very useful to gauge calibration (e.g., see what happenned Jan 14, 2000? Those data are garbage).
If you haven't already started doing this, I will show you a useful way to save time (and sleep) with back-to-back observing. It involves defining a function while in mterm.