TASS in S&T

[Thomas Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

Tass is mentioned in a Sky and Telescope article about SuperWasp.  Read it
at:

http://skyandtelescope.com/news/article_1251_1.asp

Tass Batavia takes more data.  As usual, some out there are better at
"selling" their project than I am.  This is because they have to keep
getting funding.  It takes a lot less effort to run a project if you don't
care about getting funded.  So work hard, save your money, then some day
you can do what you damn well please as I do.  

Looks like they are not running filtered.  I see they get 50,000 stars a
frame.  We get as many as 30,000, but then after the requirement of
simultaneous VI, we rarely get more than 10,000.  There is roughly a 5/1
loss between individual detections and simultaneous detections.  So if we
get 5000 measuements total in the V and I camera, we net out at 1000 or so.
The I camera always sees more stars so it is something like 3500 I
detections, 1500 V detections, and 1000 matches.

Tom Droege



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