TASS Technical Notes

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mwrsps@rit.edu

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Technical Note 1
Preparation of TASS Technical Notes
Technical Note 2
Index of Technical Notes
Technical Note 3
Keywords in Technical Notes
Technical Note 4
FITS file format for TASS images
Technical Note 5
Astrometric and Photometric Calibration of TASS Images
Technical Note 6
Mark III CCD Test Results
Technical Note 7
Mark III CCD Test Results, Jan 7, 1996
Technical Note 8
Mark III CCD Test Results, Jan 17, 1996
Technical Note 9
Analysis of five Orion images
Technical Note 10
Analysis of three I-band Orion images
Technical Note 11
Object Detection in TASS
Technical Note 12
Using a Shifted PSF for Star Detection
Technical Note 13
Schematics of TASS camera
Technical Note 14
Camera Connector Pinouts and Voltages
Technical Note 15
How to Clean TASS Filters
Technical Note 16
CCD chip quantum efficiencies
Technical Note 17
Camera Temperature Regulation
Technical Note 18
Noise in triplet #3
Technical Note 19
Photometric properties of Vermont triplet: Aug 21, 1996
Technical Note 20
The Mark IV Amateur Sky Survey Camera: Sept 12, 1996
Technical Note 21
Devious nature of the sky
Technical Note 22
Applying World System Coordinates Parameters To TASS FITS Headers
Technical Note 23
Using The WCS Tools Library To Provide Astrometric Solutions to TASS Star Lists
Technical Note 24
Problems encountered with the TASS-APL triplet
Technical Note 25
Richmond's Analysis of Tom Droege's Feb 1997 images
Technical Note 26
General Considerations for Drift Scanning
Technical Note 27
Automated TASS Photometric Reduction/Calibration
Technical Note 28
Comparison of three independent reductions of Tom Droege's Feb 1997 images
Technical Note 29
The Mark IV Camera System Design
Technical Note 30
TASS File Naming Conventions
Technical Note 31
Analysis of photometry in SMSP areas
Technical Note 32
Comparison of several methods of extracting magnitudes
Technical Note 33
Creating Optimized Photometric Apertures
Technical Note 34
Some Notes on Using the New Version of Sextractor to Generate Star Lists From TASS Images
Technical Note 35
A Discussion of UPS units
Technical Note 36
Installing Linux, RT Linux, and the TASS Driver
Technical Note 37
Instructions For Placing A Mark III Tass Camera Into Operation
Technical Note 38
Outline of Mark IV Electronics
Technical Note 39
Mark IV Hardware
Technical Note 40
The Mark IV Camera Head
Technical Note 41
Analysis of Glenn Gombert's TASS data
Technical Note 42
The Mark IV Mount and Housing
Technical Note 43
Recalibration of measurements in the TASS database
Technical Note 44
Comparison of "Good" TASS Measurements against Two Catalogs
Technical Note 45
Analysis of Dayton TASS data reduced with Flatcomp program
Technical Note 46
Mark IV Stamp Commands
Technical Note 47
Analysis of Mark IV image of M31
Technical Note 48
Mark IV Survey Strategy
Technical Note 49
Mark IV Dark Images and Cosmic Rays
Technical Note 50
Analysis of Mark IV image in Virgo
Technical Note 51
Analysis of March 28, 1999, Mark IV images in Serpens
Technical Note 52
Analysis of March 23, 1999, Mark IV images
Technical Note 53
Data Flow Diagram for Mark IV (in progress)
Technical Note 54
Photometric Properties of Mark III data, Oct 1996 - Sept 1998
Technical Note 55
Photometric-quality compression of TASS image data
Technical Note 56
Description of TASS tenxcat catalog
Technical Note 57
Mark III databases; software and datasets by site
Technical Note 58
Mark III time references and VCO rates
Technical Note 59
Analysis of V-band Mark IV image H3R1458.895
Technical Note 60
Quick Measurements of Focus in V-band images from Disk 6
Technical Note 61
Quick Measurements of Focus in I-band images from Disk 6
Technical Note 62
Mark IV, Disk Set 7
Technical Note 63
Sample images from Mark IV with a lens fix
Technical Note 64
Astrometric and Photometric Analysis of M5 images made by TASS Mark IV camera
Technical Note 65
Summary of Temperature Experiments on the Mark IV
Technical Note 66
Degree of crowding on Mark IV images
Technical Note 67
Diary about the analysis of TASS disk 15
Technical Note 69
The Mark IV RA drive
Technical Note 70
Mark IV CD #5, measures of coma & saturation
Technical Note 71
Mark IV CD #5 dark images by columns and rows
Technical Note 72
Summary about the discussion of FITS tables
Technical Note 73
Coma, etc., by Andrew Bennett
Technical Note 74
Proposal for Extrasolar Planet Transit Searches Using the Mark IV Camera
Technical Note 75
Data Set T, by Andrew Bennett
Technical Note 76
Analysis of Repeated Fields on Disk 16
Technical Note 77
TASS disk sets 17 and 18 measurements
Technical Note 78
A Proposed Enhanced Capabilities Port (ECP) Interface To Replace The Memory Board Of The Mark IV
Technical Note 79
Tests of Cooling chips on Rochester Mark IV
Technical Note 80
Data to be kept in Mark IV databases
Technical Note 81
Data Set 20
Technical Note 82
Gaps in the magnitude histogram
Technical Note 83
A first look at a Mark IV engineering run
Technical Note 84
GSC 00279-00321: A New W UMa Eclipsing Binary (revised July 22, 2002)
Technical Note 85
Analysis of Data Set 23
Technical Note 86
NSV 10892 is a W UMa Eclipsing Binary
Technical Note 87
Rochester Mark IV Cooling Performance
Technical Note 88
Bootstrap Photometry for the Mark IV
Technical Note 89
Correcting Photometric Errors across the Mark IV Field
Technical Note 90
The Dark Side of the Flat
Technical Note 91
Error contribution of motor movements during image transfer in MarkIV images
Technical Note 92
Data Set 24: MK IV Photometry
Technical Note 93
Mark II Clear and Dark Sky Detector
Technical Note 94
MK IV Photometry: Tom's Sorted Data
Technical Note 95
Sky Settings
Technical Note 97
Photometric properties of TOM1 data in the TR dataset
Technical Note 98
"Conventional" reduction of the TOM1 data in the TR dataset
Technical Note 99
Using asteroids to check Mark IV timestamps
Technical Note 100
A check on quality of Mark IV photometry around IO Aur
Technical Note 101
Overall properties of Mark IV data
Technical Note 102
The Mark IV "patch" dataset
Technical Note 103
Looking for stars with high proper motion in the Mark IV database
Technical Note 104
Mark IV Photometry of Var Cas 2006
Technical Note 105
Version 2 of the Mark IV "patches" catalog
Technical Note 106
Summary of Steven Bickerton's TASS Reduction
Technical Note 107
Magnitude measurements and the local stellar density
Technical Note 108
Photometry in Crowded Fields
Technical Note 109
TASS-type Astronomy With a Camera

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