RE: new additions to TASS home page

["Gutzwiller, Michael" <mgutzwiller@lanvision.com>]

With our cuts very loose at this stage the star program could very
easily create a series of candidates from a satellite or airplane track.
These could be eliminated if we tighten down on the "sum ratio limit"
parameter.  The closer this value is to 1.0 the more a star candidate
has to look like a star.  Alternatively I could enhance star to output
the sum ratio value so we can cut after the fact in the database.  The
sum ratio value is the ratio of the PSF fitted ADU sum to the PSF
aperture ADU sum.

Mike G.

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Tom Droege [SMTP:droege@wwa.com]
	Sent:	Monday, January 05, 1998 4:11 PM
	To:	tass@wwa.com; Stupendous Man
	Subject:	Re: new additions to TASS home page

	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)