Re: 1999 Mark III Data Collecting Season

["Michael Gutzwiller" <deepsky@fuse.net>]

I haven't been doing a lot of data taking for the past few months but I have
been slowly plowing through all my old data with the latest software.  I
have also been working on a Windows based data collection program that will
automatically adjust the VCO to give the desired shift rate.  The program
can keep the shift rate accurate to about 0.0002 seconds or about 1/10 pixel
over the entire exposure.

As soon as the program is finished I'll start using it to collect data
again.

-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Gombert <gleng@infinet.com>
To: tass@wwa.com <tass@wwa.com>
Date: Saturday, March 20, 1999 3:02 PM
Subject: 1999 Mark III Data Collecting Season


>
>Hello,
>        While Tom is busy geting the "kinks" out of the Mark IV RA drive,I
>am about to start another season of taking data iwht the Mark III here in
>Dayton. There is just not enough clear weather from November till the end
of
>March to get enough points to make decent light-curves of long-term period
>variables.
>
>        I should have enougth data by the end of the season to publish
>light-curves and periods of many new long term variables (several dozen at
>least)....
>
>        With a stable "data processing" pipeline I will probably collect
>data heavily till the end of the season here in Dayton with the existing
>Mark III camera.I hope that other sites plan to continue to collect Mark
III
>data as well.
>
>Clear Skies,
>Glenn G.
>Glenn Gombert <gleng@infinet.com>
>
>