Re: Data Taking Rate

[Chris Albertson <chrisja@jps.net>]

Tom Droege wrote:
> 
> I just put run #50 in my log book.  This is since 28 August 1997.  This
> means I have had 50 savable runs in 8 months.  A little over 6 good nights
> a month.  Anyone want to share similar statistics?
> 
> There should be of order 100,000 star measurements per run, or 5 million or
> so for this location so far.   I realize that they all don't end up in the
> data base.   Seems like we should be beginning to have some nice statistics.

Six/month seems a little lower than I would expect.  What criteria are
you
using to sort the good nights from the bad nights?

I have been thinking of a way to maximumize the amount of good data on
non-
perfect nights.  One easy thing would be to use shorter files.  If the
files
where half is long as then maybe a larger fraction of be uncontaminated
by
clouds.  We could also make the frames much larger or assemble them into
one
long strip then "slice out" the good parts.

This is not really a pressing issue as our current problem is not lack
of
data.

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