Re: [TASS] Non-Linearity of Mk IV Images

[Tom Droege <droege@WWA.COM>]

Ted and all,

This must be a solved problem.  All those astronomers out there already
have this problem so there must be programs out there that have worked this
out.  The problme is probably adopting them to our particular situation and
putting them into our software control system.  ;^)

I will do my part.  In a few months I will be able to point a telescope at
the pole and everywhere in between and take data sets to work on.

Tom Droege

At 04:43 PM 12/11/99 -0800, you wrote:
>At 01:51 PM 10-12-99 -0600, Tom wrote, in part:
>
>>...To those that keep asking what they can do, Mike points out a nice
problem.
>>Work on the distortion of the sky from the "large" v ewing angle of the
>>Mark IV...
>
>I'll look at that problem, Tom.  At first glance it would appear that it's
>not just that the Mk IV has a larger viewing angle, but the fact that it
isn't
>confined to look due south at the equator.  As an extreme case, picture an
>image containing the north celestial pole, with all those lines of RA coming
>in from all directions and meetin at a point!  Fun.
>
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>                                Ted
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