I met with Dave on Monday to discuss the toy stackplot procedure I had created during week1. Some of my code was redundant, because I'm not used to how IDL handles arrays, but the semicolon notation is certainly much more elegant than a triple-nested loop for filling a data cube.
The next step was to use
in addition to the list of events from the proposal I read in order to look at downloading a data set.www.lmsal.com/get_aia_data/ www.solarmonitor.org
I also spent time looking at lmsal documentation to see if the cutout service data is already prepped or if it needed to be done locally. It needed to be done locally.
My first dataset is from 2011 January 20, with a 1 minute cadence and lasts until ~24 hours after the first set of loops appear. Because of limitations from the cutout service, I had to work in 11-hour batches. I ended up with 4 batches, which in total lasted from 2011 Jan 20 @ 22:00 to 2011 Jan 22 @ 18:00.
When prepping my cutout data, I was getting blank data cubes (0 intensities). Running aia_prep IDL procedure with the /cutout option gave me a proper data cube, but destroyed the tracking. DMcK worked on a homemade cutout procedure in order to work around working in batches.