Re: Data Sets for Data Reduction

[Tom Droege <tdroege@veriomail.com>]

Woops!  I misread.  Two images a day is too slow.  I read it as two disks a 
day.  ;^) I too am curious why you have not upgraded your 8086 to something 
faster.  ;^)

If this increased computation produces better results, one could set up a 
SETI like operation to get the data reduced.  SETI seems to have proven 
that there are a lot of computer owners out there willing to put their idle 
computer time to work.  This would be a constructive way to get a lot of 
people interested in astronomy.

There are 180 people on the tass mail list that I know of.   The fact that 
they hang around means that they are interested.  I bet many would process 
disks if we sent out a call.  OK, I know it is too soon.  Andrew will find 
the loop that eats up 99 percent of the time and make it better.  We sholud 
not let computation time daunt us.  I think it can be found.

Just for fun, how many of you lurkers would be willing to run a processing 
program?  Send private mail to me at tdroege@veriomail.com  and I will 
report the number. You might also report the available processing 
speed/number of computers that you could put to the task.  Remember, just 
for fun, so don't put in any work.

Tom

At 08:00 AM 11/6/00 -0600, you wrote:
>This seems an acceptable speed to me.  One runs a Mark IV in a suburban 
>location possibly 70 nights a year and collects an average of 4 CD 
>ROMS.  "One a day" processing is fast enough to keep up, and has margin 
>for false starts, etc..
>
>Tom Droege
>
>At 02:47 AM 11/6/00 -0800, you wrote:
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>> > Andrew writes in part: