Re: Running!

[Michael Koppelman <lolife@bitstream.net>]

Sweet. Nice work, Tom. Is this a production run now?

Has anyone got any good candidates for me? I've finally got BVRI 
capabilities on my 160mm f/3.3. I'm getting my transformation equations 
worked out now. With the fancy filter wheel, I should be able to do 
near-simultaneous BVRI observations of new objects.

My current star is getting low. I think I've got pretty adequate 
coverage on it for now anyway. It would be nice to have something that 
is transiting at midnight or so in mid-America here.

Cheers,
Michael Koppelman


On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 02:13 AM, Tom Droege wrote:

> TOM1, TOM2, and TOM3 all ran last night and took data.  Other than a 
> moon in the start of the run there seemed to be no problems.  Well, 
> there is something funny about TOM3 when it looks at the pole.  It 
> looks like I will get 14 or so CD's of images.
>
> I have TOM1 looking at -6 to +18.  TOM2 is looking at +18 to +50, and 
> TOM3 is looking at +50 to +90.  I don't get quite everything that 
> comes over.  Overlap fans will be interested to know that I have 
> abandoned the scheme which took fixed sky square is favor of one that 
> is more efficient in the use of the cameras. This will result in a lot 
> of overlap from one day to the next.  That is stars will appear in 
> different positions in the images.