Re: new additions to TASS home page

[Tom Droege <droege@wwa.com>]

Michael,

Very nice!!  There is even more data than you indicated.  Going from
0-1 RA and -.2 to +.7 in Decl.  gives a nice diagonal track.  

>  I urge people to try this out: make a V-band chart of 
>(0.0 < RA < 0.5) and (0.0 < Dec < 0.5),
>and look at chart: there's clearly an object which moves through the
>field!   It turns out to take only a few minutes to move all the
>way across a 3-degree swath, so I suspect that it's a satellite
>of some kind.

Huh!  Does this mean that Mike's program looked at the track and found
many points???   Is this just one data field, or the combination of a lot of
measurements from different locations??   How can you tell that it only
took a few minutes to move all the way across the 3 degree swath???
Seeems like all the measurements have one time stamp???  I don't
understand.

OK, I looked (by hand) at a couple of points on the track and they both
came from  G1A_0745.  To hard to track them all down when a computer
can do it.

Hmmm!  If a track is turned into many points is this good or bad?

Tom 

At 06:54 PM 1/2/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>  It's now possible to create a VERY simple star chart from information
>in the TASS Database.  Remember, the current information is uncollated,
(snip)