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[TASS] Quick-Look At Tom's Latest Batch Of Data



Hello Mark IV Data Fans;

        I took a "quick look" at the batch of data that Tom sent and arrived here
yesterday with the processing code in its current condition. The data from
11/27 & 11/28 had high background levels (in excess of 225 or so) which is
probably a good indication of some high cloud cover and made matching with
catalog stars quite difficult….

        The data from the analysis log file shown below is representative of the
data on Tom's Disk #5 which a number of people have been looking at. It
looks like 3 x 3 PFS's due to "hot pixel's" are still an artifact on Tom's
V-band camera. These are pretty much absent on the "I" band data. This is
probably the most pressing issue to look at (from a data perspective) as
Andrew pointed out in one of his e-mail's from a few days ago.

"In an earlier post, I complained that the MKIII
Windows version of Star was giving a one-point PSF
when I ran it on CD5 MKIV V-data (gimmicked to look
like MKIII). I-data was OK.

I now have rudimentary Dark and Flat running on the
MKIV data and the problem has gone away; PSF for the
V-images is now 5x9 (5x9 to 9x11 for the I-images)
as one would expect from looking at the raw data.

It seems that Star was seeing all those hot pixels
in preference to the harder work of looking at stars!

I therefore withdraw the suggestion that Tom should
defocus the telescopes. If my diagnosis that the problem
was the hot pixels is correct, it would not have helped
anyway!

Andrew Bennett, Avondale Vineyard, Nova Scotia, Canada."

        I am most curious what Andrew did to solve this problem (using custom made
dark/flat frames) it looks like. Also it makes me wonder if this is a
artifact of all the V-band cameras or just the one that Tom happens to have
on his current Mark IV or if all of the Mark IV cameras (V-band) will have
similar artifacts????

Any ideas would be appreciated before I process a lot more data!!

Glenn G.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

11/29/99 Disk#1 V-Band Data

#File  F     Stars  M   MagAdj   Noise  BackV   PSF
H3R1512.512  7727       0.000    41.0  -0.003   3x3
H3R1512.516  8410   x   0.000    83.8   0.014   3x3
H3R1512.520  7044       0.000    81.3   0.014   3x3
H3R1512.524 10264   x   0.000    79.2   0.014   5x9
H3R1512.528  6404   x   0.000    84.9   0.014   3x3
H3R1512.532  8952   x   0.000    80.6   0.014   3x3
H3R1512.536  7496   x   0.000    85.2   0.014   5x9
H3R1512.540 12801   x   0.000    79.2   0.015   3x3
H3R1512.544  7850   x   0.000    82.4   0.015   3x3
H3R1512.548 10792       0.000    83.5   0.015   5x3
H3R1512.552  6792   x   0.000    73.6   0.017   3x3
H3R1512.556  7443   x   0.000    76.0   0.015   3x3
H3R1512.559 10724   x   0.000    71.4   0.015   3x3
H3R1512.563 10844   x   0.000    67.9   0.016   3x3
H3R1512.567  9611   x   0.000    81.0   0.014   3x3
H3R1512.571  8665   x   0.000    76.4   0.015   3x3
H3R1512.575 10021   x   0.000    70.4   0.016   3x3
H3R1512.579  8542   x   0.000    77.1   0.015   3x3
H3R1512.583  9827   x   0.000    76.7   0.015   3x3
H3R1512.586  9365   x   0.000    82.0   0.014   3x3
H3R1512.590 11393   x   0.000    74.3   0.015   3x3
H3R1512.594 14820   x   0.000    74.3   0.015   5x7
H3R1512.598 11291   x   0.000    75.0   0.015   3x3
H3R1512.602  8781   x   0.000    77.1   0.015   3x3
H3R1512.605  9931   x   0.000    72.1   0.016   3x3
H3R1512.609  9273   x   0.000    70.7   0.016   3x3
H3R1512.613  7643   x   0.000    71.4   0.017   3x3
H3R1512.617 10156   x   0.000    76.0   0.015   3x3
H3R1512.620  8088   x   0.000    71.8   0.016   3x3
H3R1512.624  8902       0.000    69.7   0.017   3x3
H3R1512.628  8434   x   0.000    77.8   0.015   3x3
H3R1512.632 10128   x   0.000    66.8   0.017   3x3
H3R1512.636  7880   x   0.000    77.4   0.015   3x3
H3R1512.639 10730   x   0.000    70.7   0.016   3x3
H3R1512.643 15335   x   0.000    69.7   0.020   3x3
H3R1512.647  8595   x   0.000    72.1   0.027   3x3
H3R1512.651  7362   x   0.000    74.6   0.022   3x3
H3R1512.655  6637   x   0.000    77.8   0.017   3x3
H3R1512.658  7655   x   0.000    74.6   0.018   3x3
H3R1512.662  7358   x   0.000    75.3   0.015   3x3


11/29/99 Disk #1 I-Band Data

#File  F    Stars  M   MagAdj   Noise  BackV   PSF
H4R1512.512 6123   x   0.000   144.3   0.015   7x9
H4R1512.516 7299   x   0.000   175.4   0.012   5x11
H4R1512.520 5957   x   0.000   178.6   0.012   5x11
H4R1512.524 6142   x   0.000   173.6   0.012   5x11
H4R1512.528 6280   x   0.000   174.0   0.012   5x9
H4R1512.532 6062   x   0.000   173.6   0.012   5x9
H4R1512.536 5668   x   0.000   184.2   0.011   5x11
H4R1512.540 6193   x   0.000   170.4   0.012   5x9
H4R1512.544 5547   x   0.000   179.3   0.012   5x9
H4R1512.548 5427   x   0.000   180.3   0.012   5x11
H4R1512.552 6549   x   0.000   146.0   0.016   5x9
H4R1512.556 6265   x   0.000   161.2   0.014   5x9
H4R1512.559 7225   x   0.000   153.5   0.013   5x9
H4R1512.563 5712   x   0.000   157.4   0.015   5x9
H4R1512.567 6157       0.000   166.5   0.012   5x9
H4R1512.571 6035       0.000   166.5   0.013   5x9
H4R1512.57511440       0.000   154.2   0.014   3x3
H4R1512.579 5479   x   0.000   162.0   0.013   5x9
H4R1512.583 5609   x   0.000   163.7   0.013   5x11
H4R1512.586 5825   x   0.000   170.4   0.012   5x9
H4R1512.590 5640   x   0.000   160.5   0.013   5x9
H4R1512.594 5709   x   0.000   157.7   0.013   5x9
H4R1512.598 5454   x   0.000   162.7   0.013   5x9
H4R1512.602 5959   x   0.000   156.3   0.013   5x9
H4R1512.60515653       0.000   149.6   0.016   3x5
H4R1512.609 5471   x   0.000   148.9   0.015   5x9
H4R1512.613 5917   x   0.000   149.2   0.013   5x9
H4R1512.617 6015   x   0.000   157.7   0.014   5x9
H4R1512.620 5856   x   0.000   151.0   0.017   5x9
H4R1512.624 5386   x   0.000   156.3   0.013   5x9
H4R1512.62816580       0.000   160.9   0.013   5x7
H4R1512.63217294       0.000   142.1   0.018   5x5
H4R1512.636 7398       0.000   160.9   0.015   5x7
H4R1512.639 8631   x   0.000   157.0   0.022   5x9
H4R1512.64312043   x   0.000   156.6   0.018   5x9
H4R1512.64715941       0.000   155.6   0.017   5x3
H4R1512.651 5830   x   0.000   151.0   0.015   5x9
H4R1512.65517027       0.000   147.8   0.015   3x3
H4R1512.65817973       0.000   153.1   0.016   5x7
H4R1512.66218854       0.000   150.6   0.016   5x5