Re: Data Taking Rate

[aah@nofs.navy.mil]

Chris wrote about methods to save non-photometric nights.  The way I was
expecting the project to go was as follows:
  (1) astrometry from all nights are combined for mean positions.
      Clouds directly impact the photometry, but only reduce the
      signal in the coordinate calculation.
  (2) Photometric nights are used to determine mean magnitudes for
      all objects.
  (3) These same photometric nights are used to find variables based
      on their scatter.
  (4) Differential photometry with respect to a nearby subset of stars
      with known mean magnitudes is used to determine the magnitudes
      for the variable stars.  This technique works equally well for
      photometric and non-photometric nights.
Arne