Re: Newbie: observation request?

[Tom Droege <tdroege@veriomail.com>]

Aaron and all,

Last night out of 10 possible images of RR CrB, six look OK, two are 
through thin clouds and may be salvageable, and two are completely 
obscured.  It does not look good for tonight.

Meanwhile, I am still working on various problems.  One is the gain of 
MIKE.  I cannot see any different part, but the gain is off by a factor of 
two.   There is always the possibility of a mismarked part.  But with a two 
channel system, it takes two mismarked parts.  A low probability.

Tom Droege


At 12:58 AM 6/11/01 -0400, you wrote:

>  First off, thanks for all the feedback to Tom and the others. I am truly
>starting to see the potential these systems provide. The future is very
>bright if this gets completed to such a degree that reliable systematic
>observations begin. And even until that point, as Tom is showing, even the
>testing phase can yield some good results.
>  This (analyzing the data) is all new to me so it will take some time to
>get it figured out. However, I have some great friendly people willing to
>help me in specific areas of the science. With tools like that you can't
>go wrong! I am on break from school next week until August 30, so I intend
>to spend this summer learning the ropes from the pros, so to speak. One
>item on my agenda is to learn how to mine TASS data. The Pipeline project
>will definately interest me and I intend to go over the discussion group
>archives and web site to get a handle on that too. I cant wait to get my
>hands on the CDROMs.
>  FWIW, one of my long term goals (2-3 years from now) is to get well
>enough versed in using data to begin pointing others in the right
>direction. I'd love to be able to be as helpful to others starting out as
>many have been helpful to me. So hopefully this is an investment in time
>that will pay off even further down the road via orders of "magnitude"
>(pun quite intended). :)
>
>Aaron Price, Technical Assistant, Technology
>American Association of Variable Star Observers
>http://www.aavso.org