Re: Observation nights in August data question.

[jg <jg@jgws.freeisp.co.uk>]

Tom,

Fair enough ;^)

I did something rather abysmal and very slow with qbasic last time,
maybe I can manage it again.  It didn't work very well coz of variant
column positions in collected data file, so I ditched it, but I may get
along better this time round now I've done it once.

Cheers

John G.

Tom Droege wrote:
> 
> John,
> 
> The simple answer is no.  I have a log of the days of observations.  Next
> to the run I write the approximate center of the frame.  To find the number
> of days I plotted collected.august by time and RA with gnuplot.  This gave
> 15 days with one stray point for a possible 16th day.   I think this is a
> job for a data base, not a log book.  ;^)
> 
> It is not so easy to look at the log and decide which frames might have had
> data between 270 and 300 degrees.  Of couse it was easy to sort it from a
> combined set of .cal files.
> 
> Tom Droege
> 
> At 04:12 PM 8/11/02 +0000, you wrote:
> 
> >Tom
> >
> >Do you have a simple log of which nights observations were made for the
> >August data, please?
> >
> >It took me quite a bit of effort to get the dozen or so individual
> >nights out of the July dataset.
> >
> >JD to one decimal place (to help be near the time of night you observed)
> >would more than suffice.
> >
> >Not crucial, but if you already have them logged it'd save a lot of
> >trouble filtering through tons of data just for a few dates.
> >
> >Cheers
> >
> >John G.