Re: Interesting paper on "Extremely Little Telescope"

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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:38:56 -0500
From: Thomas F. Droege <droege@fastmail.fm>
To: Tass Mailing List <tass@tass-survey.org>
Subject: Re: Interesting paper on "Extremely Little Telescope"

Michael and all,

I enjoyed the paper.  Thank you for noting it, Michael.  Sigh!  There is
a big advantage to having 11 people in one spot doing a project like
this.  They could study a lot of things.  It would have been nice to do
more work than was possible with our lenses.  I have struggled with lens
tilt.  They see it too with commercial products which they can't tinker
with.  At least I could make an attempt to straighten out the optical
axis.

Michael has carried most of the burden for studying the peculiarities of
the instruments.  It is a big advantage to have a group to talk to face
to face while looking at last night's data.

I still think we have done what is possible at this location.  60% of
their nights are useable!  Sigh!  Still, papers like this motivate me to
keep going.  We have done a lot for a guy and supporters working on the
roof in a big city.  I note that even though they are professionals,
they are not using filters.  OK, it is not required for their purpose.

I have run the last couple of nights.  There is a pipeline problem
(mine).  I will take a couple of pain pills and have at it.

Tom Droege


On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:34:53 -0700 (PDT), "Tass Mailing List"
<tass@mail.alembic.net> said:
>
> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:23:07 -0400
> From: Michael Richmond <richmond@stupendous.cis.rit.edu>
> To: tass@tass-survey.org
> Cc: mwrsps@rit.edu
> Subject: Interesting paper on "Extremely Little Telescope"
>
>
>   There's an interesting paper on astro-ph describing
> a "Tiny" telescope (based on large-format camera lenses
> and CCDs) which is looking for transits by extrasolar
> planets.  Some of the issues discussed in the paper
> will be familiar to TASS members ....
>
>   See
>
>       http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0704.0460
>
>                   Michael Richmond
>
-- 
  Thomas F. Droege
  droege@fastmail.fm