RE: MIKE is started

["Michael Gutzwiller" <deepsky@fuse.net>]

As you guessed, my goals are better served by more measurements in fewer
areas as opposed to more areas measured.  This is the only conflict between
my goals and a general survey.  As time progressed however my goals would
lead to the same coverage as the general survey but with different time
slices.  My data would then be better suited to short period variable
discovery while data from a general survey would be better suited to long
period variable discovery.

I would not even be tempted to remove the filters since seeing the same
variation in two different colors is vital to identifying transits as
opposed to other transient phenomena.  This was also key to the various
micro-lensing projects.  Hmmmm, that could be another use of the data.


Mike G.


-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Droege [mailto:tdroege@veriomail.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 10:09 PM
To: Michael Gutzwiller; tass@listserv.wwa.com
Subject: RE: MIKE is started


Mike and all,

Your goals sound just great to me.  Good photometry is good
photometry.  You will not be tempted to remove the filters to view fainter
stars since the filters are glued in place.  ;^)

Other than that, I cannot imagine much that you can to that will damage the
general program.  I assume that you will want to make more frequent
measurements of one field rather than covering a large area?  Sounds OK to
me.

Tom Droege



At 09:52 PM 8/19/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Just got back from vacation and the screws are already being put on!  I
>actually spent 10 days straight without touching a keyboard and feel quite
>refreshed now.  (Things were _very_ hectic before vacation started.)  I did