Routine Operation

[Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

I have been running TOM1 routinely on every clear night.  (Not many this 
time of year.)  Last night it was cold enough that the V shutter stuck.  It 
is the old design and I have a fix, so Saturday we will take the camera off 
and rebuild the shutter to the new design.

I have been quiet because I am writing software.  A bad sign.  You all 
should not let me write software.  I am learning a few of the ways that 
Perl can get you so that it gives very bad clues as to what it wrong.  For 
example using = instead of == gives strange error messages far removed from 
the source of the problem.  So it goes.  But I have almost implemented my 
scheme.  Then we shall see what the results are when I process images with 
various problems.

I want to be to turn on and run through the night if it looks like there 
will be any clear sky (and no precipitation).  The goal is to have 
automatic processing of images with code that throws out images that are 
bad and keeps images that are good with few errors in either direction.  We 
shall see.

Tom Droege