I just got back from the 109th meeting of the ASP in Chicago. The talk on the TASS Project went well, it was not as detailed as the AAS talks but there were a lot of good questions. Several people wanted to know "how do I get involved in TASS", I gave them my E-mail address and will try to follow-up in the next few days. Vigina Trimble gave a talk("The Universe You Don't See: Existance and Nature of Dark Matter) which was the same time that I did so the talk might have had more attendance if it was in a different time-slot.
Leif Robinson also gave a talk highlightening some of the results from the AAS meeting, the TASS project again got some very nice "PR" from Leif. He will repeate the same talk at ALCON next week out in Colorado.
I had a very interesting talk with Jim Kaler (from the University of Illinois) he was another one of the speakers and has been involved with the Stardial project there. He seemed very interested in the progress that we had been making on data reduction efforts. Several members of the board of the ASP also took time to discuss the project and seemed very interetsed in what we were doing.
I did have a chance to stop by and visit with Tom and see the prototype of the Mark IV camera being assembled, he hopes to be getting some images in the next month or so. I have just been catching up on the discussion of wide-angle searches over the last several days. Lief Robinson showed a slide of a survey being conducted using a ccd camera and wide-angle lens to map the H2 regions in the Southern Sky. A talk was presented on this subject at the AAS meeting. It seems that this might be a good project as well for a Mark IV Tass camera to perhaps be used to perfrom a similar survey of the Northern Sky.