Finally, Karolyn and Linda were ready to collect their data. They began with an image request specifying the coordinates of the Orion Nebula, part of Orion's sword and the brightest object in the test series. About a week later, they successfully downloaded their first image to our classroom. To our collective chagrin, they discovered that they could not view the file. Their disappointment and frustration were obvious.
Big problems build strong minds.
Karolyn and Linda seemed quite undecided about my sanity. However, they forged ahead into the subject of computer file formats. We viewed their first image, the Orion Nebula. It was uniformly gray with a smudge at the bottom and a few speckles. Look at the picture in this book.