Re: The new tass star 240.0543 +9.3849

[Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

John and all,

Remember, in tass there are no rules.  There is no "point".  Well, the 
point is really to do some nice science, but my style might irritate some 
professional astronomers who are used to hiding the scientific process 
until the result can be revealed in a journal in text so obscure that only 
the high priests can understand it.  I think almost anyone subscribing to 
the tass list can understand the scientific process.  Just watch Michael 
K's attempts to work out a scientific paper on his result.  One quickly 
will learn about the scientific process.

Those of you that were around in the very first days of tass might recall a 
post where I outlined this as one of my objectives.   "Reveal the 
scientific process."  (With all the warts.) Some might say that I am 
corrupting the scientific process.  But that is part of the revelation, is 
it not?  In my view, showing what goes wrong is even more important than 
showing what is right.  When a well intentioned and thoughtful person goes 
down a path that leads to scientific error that it tragedy.  This I find 
more interesting than displayed success.  But I have a perverse way of 
thinking as you all must know by now.

So John, if you want to look up the stars and cross catalog them, that is 
just great.  That is a part of the whole process that needs to be 
done.  You will save others doing it.

Tom Droege

At 10:38 AM 6/8/02 +0000, you wrote:
>Finally, if you start putting up quick look tables of interesting
>candidates I'll be tempted to cross ID them. If this is not the point
>let me know ;)