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Day 01 homework, due Aug 29
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Briefly (one paragraph) describe why you are taking this course and what you hope to get out of it.
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My research interest is in learning and working with Cloudy. You are the originator of the software, so I want to learn what you know. The story I have in my head is that Cloudy grew around solving and explaining problems in astrophysics related to spectroscopy. I never asked directly, but it seems reasonable to assume that many of those problems are going to be described and practiced in this course. More generally, I want to learn about as many astrophysical phenomena as I can. Within the limit of taking required courses, the topical course requirement allows for only one astrophysics course. Given the nature of the course, I suspect (or hope?) this class surveys a wide breadth of phenomena. With these two important criteria satisfied by the course, attending it is a no-brainer.
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Did you see the solar eclipse? Briefly describe what you saw if you did.
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Yes! I was surprised that, visually, I barely noticed the eclipse even past 75% coverage, unless I looked directly at the sun's disk with glasses. After something around 75%, it became noticeably dimmer, and eventually I saw earthly things in a color I don't remember seeing before. It was something like a dark blue. At some point, the moon became visible as part of a black disk across the sun, and it looked like a hole in the sky, which eventually gobbled up the last bit of bright light from the sun. After that, surrounding this hole, I could see the dimmer shine of the sun's corona, with a few outward streams of light-emitting gases converging to tips at a distance about 2 solar disk radii from the center. I expected them to be longer. For about 2.5 minutes, I sat back and watched the streams as I pondered the magnetohydrodynamics of the beast. When the sun's disk peered its brighter light around the back edge of the moon's obscuring disk, it was strikingly bright, like a laser shining in my direction, and that was the last I saw.
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Why kind of laptop (Linux, Mac, Windows) do you have?
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Linux
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What experience have you had with Linux utilities such as ssh or ftp? “None” is a perfectly fine answer.
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Very experienced
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