Data

[Tom Droege <tdroege@veriomail.com>]

Lots of good data was taken last night.  I ran both TOM and MICHAEL with 
good result.  I am slowly learning to get a focus and to run the RA so that 
the stars are more and more point like.  MICHAEL is not very well polar 
alined, but other than that it is OK.  Both systems seem to be ice 
free.  This has just been a question of running the cameras warm for an 
hour or so before cooling down.  It looks like I will get 400 2k x 2k 
images from each system.  That is 6.4 GBytes of data to process sometime.  ;^)

I will no doubt get another nice picture of the Pleiades to add to 
Michael's collection.  Looks like I will soon have 20 CD ROMs in the box to 
send with MICHAEL.  Michael will not have to actually run MICHAEL when he 
gets it.  He can just process the disks that come with it.  ;^)

Tom Droege