Monthly Report for January 2003

[Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

We took about 50 CD's of data this month.  Not very good, but more than I 
expected for January.  We are scanning the 24 degree wide strip from -6 to 
+18 with TOM1.

A good part of the month was spent learning to make a network run.  The 
plan is to have 3 windows machines taking data and 3 linux machines 
processing it.  I can now read images from the remote Windows machine and 
process them directly to star lists.  Not much for you linux experts, but a 
big step for me.  When the time comes (I get debugged software to do it) I 
will switch the remote machines to linux.

Time was also spent learning to process data.  I now have utility programs 
running that reject data that has problems.  So far I can do a good job on 
bright sky (moon, thin clouds, clouds) and a pretty good job rejecting 
patchy clouds.

Trial of the flocked paper is still on my to do list.

Dan continues to crank out drawings for the Mark V.

Tom Droege