Re: Mark IV

[Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

Michael has it right except the focal length is 400 mm.

Tom Droege

At 10:05 PM 6/23/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Could you guys give me a one-sentence description of the Mark IV? I'm 
>wondering aperture, focal length and any other specifics so I could answer 
>the question posed in this messsage: "what telescope was used by T. Droege?
>"
>
>Thanks!
>Michael Koppelman
>
>Begin forwarded message:
>
>>From: Katalin Olah <olah@konkoly.hu>
>>Date: Thu Jun 20, 2002  11:31:56  AM US/Central
>>To: Michael Koppelman <lolife@bitstream.net>
>>Subject: Re: Paper Submitted via FTP
>>
>>
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>>Dear colleague,
>>
>>the discoveries of new variable stars has grown up enormously, especailly
>>that of W UMa stars, and we are not able, and we do not think it is
>>worthwhile, to publish them one by one.
>>
>>On the other hand, if you present a note on just one single object, it
>>should have some extra information. That can be a full light curve in
>>different colours, together with the data, and preferably an analysis
>>also. Or, some interesing new observed features etc.
>>
>>Therefore we regret to say that we cannot publish you note in its present
>>form.  The data you present could be interesting, but it is not at all
>>clear from the submitted paper that has serious troubles.
>>
>>The short list of the problems are as follows:
>>
>>Observatory and telescope:  what telescope was used by T. Droege?
>>Availability of the data: the header of the datafiles does not say that 
>>there are Ic data, but in the table there are V AND Ic data.
>>Remarks: It is not clear from the text, that the type of the variability
>>was also discovered by TASS data, or not?
>>
>>It is not clear what the blue and red colors mean in Fig. 1. If they are from
>>different observatories or from different times, not only the color but
>>the symbols should be different. Anyway, the observations marked by red are
>>strongly different from that in blue, and have an awful high scatter.
>>What is the reason of the difference between the two sets of data?
>>
>>Fig. 2. displays obviously wrong datapoints that should be eliminated
>>from the curve and from the datafile. The shape of this light curve
>>is interesting but there is no discussion at all of it.
>>
>>Sincerely,
>>
>>Katalin Olah, editor
>>
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