The results of our fourth Optical/IR Instrumentation lab have been put online. The main portion of this lab involved measuring the characteristics of everything in a “bag o’ optics”. This collection of slightly defective optics contained a variety of lenses, lens combinations, flat pieces of glass, and diffraction gratings.
Astr512, Spring 2008: Group Beaton/Fields/Privon/Whelan Lab 4
Didn’t do much this weekend. Sat inside (and ran some errands) on Saturday because I thought rain was imminent. So, I didn’t ride.. Naturally, it didn’t rain all day. Then, when my ride was planned for Sunday, it poured all day today. Did work on some homework though.. For our instrumentation class we have a “grab bag” of dysfunctional reject optics (lenses, prisms, etc) which we have to characterize. So my group multi-tasked. I focused on re-running our bar cooling experiment while the rest of the group measured focal lengths and physical dimensions on the various optical elements. There was quite a wide variety and it was interesting to see.
Only 3 more weeks left in the semester.. can’t believe it’s almost over already.
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