RE: Sky Map

["Creager, Robert S" <CreagRS@LOUISVILLE.STORTEK.COM>]

Yes and no.  Unless we store the center of the frame, the derived center
(ramin + ramax)/2, may not really be the center, but the difference may be
too small to worry about.

I would expect to have something collecting data within a few weeks or so,
then it's a matter of generating the graphs/forms and...  How long until we
have a server/software which can handle the entire database?  Until then,
this will work.  When the real dB does come online, what I implement can be
moved onto the new server and fit with the new dB.  Consider it parallel
development.

Cheers,
Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Albertson [mailto:chrisalbertson90278@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 12:52 PM
> To: Robert Creager; Tass
> Subject: Re: Sky Map
> 
> 
> I think the way to make this work is to either
> 1) extract data from PostgreSQL database
> 2) Read the star list files generated by the pipelines,
>    assuming that people do use a standard FITS file format
>    for the star lists.
> 
> I like #1 because it enforce that the map does in fact
> exactly match the data that is available on-line.
> What would be real nice is if the map were an HTML image
> map.  
> 
> 
> --- Robert Creager <robert_creager@logicalchaos.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Hey folks,
> > 
> > Anyone interested in a Sky Coverage Graph, ala:
> > http://scully.harvard.edu/~cgi/SkyCoverage.html
> > 
> > I've done a little work on it, like defining an initial database, a
> > XML schema and sample XML file:
> > http://www.logicalchaos.org/tass/tass-observations.jpg
> > http://www.logicalchaos.org/xml/observations.xsd
> > http://http://www.logicalchaos.org/xml/observations.xml
> > 
> > It's still needs some rework (allow 'friends of tass' to place their
> > observations/single camera systems, ???), but the idea is to have
> > observations submitted via either e-mail or http PUT operation (form
> > on web page or script upload).
> > 
> > This capability may eventually be taken care of by the 'master' dB,
> > but I wanted to play, and this is something I can manage with my
> > meager alloted server space.
> > 
> > Of course, this would need buy in from the telescope 
> operators, and I
> > am willing to spend time with each of you to create scripts/programs
> > which would create the necessary XML data from your respective
> > pipeline when the time comes.
> > 
> > What say?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Rob
> > 
> 
> 
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