Day #4

Today marked my first attempt at actually requesting PROMPT to take some pictures. I determined that the large asteroid Ursula would be the best candidate for my first pictures. It is one of the largest and most well-known asteroids and was discovered over a century ago. Hopefully I can get some pictures back, so I can practice using Maxim DL with my own images. I'm still having trouble finding how I can contact Kevin Ivarsen and hopefully get some advice on the best time/position to find dimmer asteroids. I spent the remainder of the day practicing using Maxim DL to align some of the images on SkyNet. I will need to master the process of calibrating groups of images and removing all the noise. There are two main types of noise: DARK and FLAT.