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A little something about my time as a student at Aarhus UniversityWhen I finished my bachelor degree I was certain that I would do my master in astronomy. In my master thesis I had to reduce and analyze photometric data from the Nordic Optical Telescope at La Palma, the Danish 1.54m telescope at La Silla in Chile and the South African Astronomical Observatory. The data included images of the two open star clusters NGC 1817 and NGC 2243. My main task was to determine and characterize the variable stars in these two clusters. The results of my work on NGC 1817 led to a publication in "Communications in Asteroseismology". The title of the article was: "NGC 1817: the richest population of δ Scuti stars". I finished my master thesis in the Autumn of 2009. You can download my master thesis (in Danish) here You can find the article here Danish Return of HElium, Extracted on the Moon, to EarthThe mission called "Dhreeme" (acronym for "Danish Return of HElium, Extracted on the Moon, to Earth") was to send a spacecraft (ThorMa) to the Moon where solar ovens were used to extract Helium-III from the Regolith (Moon dust) found on the Moons surface. The Helium-III should then be returned with ThorMa to the Earth where it should be used in fusion reactors. Torstens web report can be found here We had a lot of fun working in this project, but not when writing the report though.... The image below shows a MATLAB generated image with the Earth and Moon in scale and the blue curve are the spacecraft trajectory, red curve indicated the Earths equator and the yellow curve indicates the Moons trajectory around the Earth. 
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