The ATOMIC sky survey project.

[Chris Albertson <chris@topdog.pas1.logicon.com>]

I got an interesting e-mail.  There is a group building a system like
the one Tom envisioned before the target became variable stars and the
lenses got longer.  These folks are using ~1k, 9um chips with 50mm f/1.2
lenses.  Some of their goals are monitoring sky brightens and weather.
but they also want to see transient astronomical events and space "junk".
(I doubt they will see much of the later)

The current state of the project is that they have a couple cameras
operational out of a planned set of 20.  They can collect data but
are not yet processing it.

They have a web site:   http://hana-mana.lanl.gov/atomic/


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