Re: the .big file

[Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

John and all,

The .cal files that made up the .big file are all on the disk as well as 
the prgoram that I used to assemble the .big file from the .cal files.

You can thus process the .cal files any way you want.

I don't mean this to be a short "do it yoursel" answer.  At least I don't 
mean to be nasty about it.  ;^)

The purpose of sending out these files it to encourage development of 
software to do what it best.  So you can take the collect_stars.pl routine 
and modify it to suit yourself to add anything you want.  Of if you can't 
modify the perl code (pretty easy) you can try to talk someone else on the 
list into doing it.  Also pretty easy, usually.  That is if it makes sense.

The goal is to develop the best schemes to handle this data.

As you can see "whatever way would be best" is up to you.  ;^)

Tom Droege

At 06:44 PM 6/4/02 +0000, you wrote:

>It could/would be useful if in the generation of the .big file the
>number of nights of observation of each object were also tallied as well
>as the total number of measurements, and passed to a separate file.
>Just counting the different number of separate interger JD dates per
>object would do or something.
>
>Whatever the WS statistic and/or the length of each run, the short
>period stars with more runs are going to be more likely to be directly
>solvable, at least in the first instance, as more light curve is likely
>to be sampled.
>
>Or whatever way would be best to do this.
>
>Thanks
>
>John
>
>John Greaves
>UK