Re: suggestion/TASS FOR DUMMIES

[Tom Droege <droege@FNAL.GOV>]

I very much agree with Chris below.  I have written a lot about how to
work with tass.  We are not in the general broad education business.  If 
you, for example, said something like "I want to experiment with sextractor
to see how far into the noise I can pick out a star", you would get lots 
of help.  Someone would tell you where to get sextractor, and several could
answer questions when you tried to use it.  

So if someone wants to figure out how to educate people in general about 
tass, that is a nice project.  One of you can pick up this project and
try to do it.  Ask questions, we will all answer.  Write something up.  We 
will all help to polish it.  To put it pretty bluntly, this is a group for 
those that want to do work in the sky survey area.  The definition of "work"
is pretty broad.  It is not a group where we will work to educate/entertain
those who are not willing to do a lot of work themselves.  There is a lot 
already written in the tech notes and in the archives.  

So I agree with Chris.  Read all the stuff in the archives.  Condense it to
something that will make sense to a newbe.  Answers not found in the tass 
archives can probably be found in any library with an astronomy section.  
A nice project, I think.

Tom Droege

At 11:20 AM 4/14/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Tom Droege wrote:
>> 
>> I have been pondering about how to answer this thread.  Trying not to sound
>> too elitist, tass is just not a group for "Dummies".
>>
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>Jamie writes:
>> >might i suggest someone write up some thing like
>> >
>> >       TASS FOR DUMMIES
>> >
>
>Not to disagree with Tom,  I think I'm saying the same thing here but from
>a diferent angle.
>
>I think the idea is pretty good. "TASS FOR DUMMIES" would be usfull. But
>I think the best person to write it is well, a "Dummy".  The document
>would be usfull first to the author.  Doing the research and asking the 
>questions would be a good way to get up to speed.  Also someone just geting
>into this would know what someone in his shoes would want to know. So
>I guess if someone wants such a document he'll have to write one.  I think
>he'll find all the help he needs.
>
>
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