AAS abstract

[Stupendous Man <richmond@a188-l009.rit.edu>]

  With some trepidation, I have submitted an abstract for a poster
paper at the upcoming summer meeting of the American Astronomical
Society, in San Diego.  I was somewhat afraid that I would

       a. promise more than we can deliver in the poster
       b. forget to mention important contributors to the recent
              TASS discussions

  Please, please forgive me if I forget someone who has been regularly
contributing lately.  Basically, I copied the names from the AAS
paper last year :-/

  Anyway, here is the abstract:

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The Amateur Sky Survey (TASS): Two years and counting

M. W. Richmond (RIT), 
T. Droege, C. Albertson, G. Gombert, M. Gutzwiller, H. Johnson, 
     R. Wickersham (TASS), 
A.  Henden (USRA/USNO), 
N. Beser, M. Pittinger, B. Kluga (JHU/APL) 

The Amateur Sky Survey (TASS), a small group of amateurs 
and professionals working together informally, has been
scanning the celestial equator with CCD cameras for 
almost two years. We present a status report on the results so far,
which include V-band and I-band measurements for many 
hundreds of thousands of stars. As we expected, it is a difficult
job to calibrate properly scans from different nights and different sites. 

    Presentation type: display
    Category: Instruments, Techniques, Catalogs
    Special interest group: New Digital Sky Surveys in the Optical and Near IR

    Submitter: Michael W. Richmond
    Correspondent email address: mwrsps@rit.edu
    Correspondent phone: (716) 475-2538
    Correspondent address: Physics Department 
                           Rochester Institute of Technology 
                           Rochester, NY 14623-5603

    Supplemental email: mwrsps@rit.edu
    New address flag: YES
    Supplemental URL: http://www.tass-survey.org/

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  The deadline is tomorrow, and I'd procrastinated and procrastinated, 
so I finally just wrote up a safe "we haven't done the analysis yet,
but we will by the time of the meeting" abstract.

  My apologies for taking upon myself this responsibility.  I'll be
working very hard in late May/early June to put together a good
report with some hard data analysis.

                                      Michael Richmond