Re: AAS abstract

[Tom Droege <droege@wwa.com>]

Sounds great to me.  I stand ready to support this effort in any way I
can.  I suspect that we will want to reprocess everything through some
new version of Star.  I am ready (and willing) to do that.  But we should
start pretty soon.  

OK, those of you who are yet to submit some data, now it the time to
uncover that camera and fill up some disk.  ;^)

Tom Droege

At 07:27 PM 4/7/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>  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
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