RE: AAS abstract

["Pittinger, Martin J." <PittiMJ1@central.SSD.JHUAPL.edu>]

I have a small update!
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Marty Pittinger
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> From: 	Tom Droege[SMTP:droege@wwa.com]
> Sent: 	Tuesday, April 07, 1998 8:08 PM
> To: 	tass@wwa.com; Stupendous Man
> Subject: 	Re: AAS abstract
> 
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
>