Re: TN-107

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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:58:27 -0400
From: Doug Welch <welch@physics.mcmaster.ca>
To: Tass Mailing List <tass@mail.alembic.net>
Subject: Re: TN-107


Hi Tom,

Very interesting. Is there further improvement once Steve Bickerton's
analysis is run on the non-crowded stars?

Cheers,
Doug

Tass Mailing List wrote:
> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:55:24 -0500
> From: Thomas F. Droege <droege@fastmail.fm>
> To: tass@tass-survey.org
> Subject: TN-107
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> For years I have been trying to find something, *anything* that would
> improve the scatter of the tass data.  I have looked at everything that
> I could think of.  Does the bad data look better than the "good" data?
> No, when I, for example, take clear nights and compare them with hazy
> nights.  Many other things have been examined with no success.  Finally
> I have found something that seems to work.  You will find it in TN-107:
>
>  http://stupendous.rit.edu/tass/technotes/tn0107.html
>
> Andrew are you here?
>
> There is lots more to be done.  I will work first on "how close is
> close".  It is slow going since I am not very clever when under
> sedation.  At least I figure that is as good an excuse as any.
>
> Tom Droege