Today largely involved independent work from me and Rumbi. We did not need to go into the campus until much later on in the evening. Most of our work was done at night. We attended the Open Dome Event, a monthly astronomy event open for the public on our campus where Dan Brown gave a talk on Pluto. The main purpose of me and Rumbi being there was to interview people to get their impressions of the campus as we had done on Wednesday. One more student was interviewed as one member of the public; interestingly, he mentioned the John Clare Lecture Theatre, a place that had yet to be mentioned by our interviewees. He also mentioned the George Eliot building, which is no longer there. As with one of our previous interviewees, it is interesting how places can fall out of relevance for people with time.
Another reason why we had to come tonight was to obtain a second panorama of the Conflict Zone at sunset conditions. It is important for us to gain multiple panoramas of the same place in different conditions to see which conditions best epitomise the memories and experiences people mentioned there. The panorama we obtained was not complete because the memory card got full. It was formatted correctly but it took six images for every angle of rotation. Nevertheless, these panoramas are only preliminary and necessary for experimentation to see how they can be imported into Stellarium.
The most fulfilling part of this Friday evening was completing a large chunk of the light pollution survey. The first two times I conducted the survey, I was on my own so work was a lot slower. With Rumbi, much of the campus got completed. All of the Erasmus Darwin site and southern parts of the campus behind that building, along with the rugby pitch, the campus loop road, Lee Westwood Sports Centre, missed parts of the Conflict Zone and parts of the New Hall Accommodation and the Student Village were surveyed. All that remains to be done are parts around the John Clare Lecture Theatres, the last parts of New Hall and behind the Lionel Robbins School of Education.
The software that is being used to make the contour plots, TeraPlot, requires entire rectangles of the campus, if it is represented as an array in Microsoft Excel, to be complete otherwise an error message will appear and say there are missing values in the array. The campus is inconveniently not a complete square so dummy values will be included in spaces that cannot be reached. Only one more night of surveying is required to complete the light pollution survey which will give another perspective to the campus apart from the memories and experiences of the users of the campus. The light pollution above the campus is almost a memory and experience of the campus itself. We can say this because in archaeoastronomy, we say that there is a dialogue between a landscape and the person in it. This personifies the landscape meaning the landscape itself has memory. Thus, we can say that things like the light pollution, the balancing pond and the Waterloo Oaks on the northern side of the cricket pitch are memories of the campus itself.
Another reason why we had to come tonight was to obtain a second panorama of the Conflict Zone at sunset conditions. It is important for us to gain multiple panoramas of the same place in different conditions to see which conditions best epitomise the memories and experiences people mentioned there. The panorama we obtained was not complete because the memory card got full. It was formatted correctly but it took six images for every angle of rotation. Nevertheless, these panoramas are only preliminary and necessary for experimentation to see how they can be imported into Stellarium.
The most fulfilling part of this Friday evening was completing a large chunk of the light pollution survey. The first two times I conducted the survey, I was on my own so work was a lot slower. With Rumbi, much of the campus got completed. All of the Erasmus Darwin site and southern parts of the campus behind that building, along with the rugby pitch, the campus loop road, Lee Westwood Sports Centre, missed parts of the Conflict Zone and parts of the New Hall Accommodation and the Student Village were surveyed. All that remains to be done are parts around the John Clare Lecture Theatres, the last parts of New Hall and behind the Lionel Robbins School of Education.
The software that is being used to make the contour plots, TeraPlot, requires entire rectangles of the campus, if it is represented as an array in Microsoft Excel, to be complete otherwise an error message will appear and say there are missing values in the array. The campus is inconveniently not a complete square so dummy values will be included in spaces that cannot be reached. Only one more night of surveying is required to complete the light pollution survey which will give another perspective to the campus apart from the memories and experiences of the users of the campus. The light pollution above the campus is almost a memory and experience of the campus itself. We can say this because in archaeoastronomy, we say that there is a dialogue between a landscape and the person in it. This personifies the landscape meaning the landscape itself has memory. Thus, we can say that things like the light pollution, the balancing pond and the Waterloo Oaks on the northern side of the cricket pitch are memories of the campus itself.