Re: [TASS] Coming Up for Air

[Tom Droege <droege@WWA.COM>]

Arne and all,

Well, I found the problem that was obscuring the problem I was searching
for.  Now I don't know if I have a problem or not.  Things were much easier
on the prototype.  If I saw stars I felt good.  It was spread out all over
the lab, with wires hanging off everywhere.  Now I have everything neatened
up.  It is much harder to test anything, and unless there are stars to see,
there is no absolute test.

My rule is that I won't shop it out the door unless I beat it up for a
month and  can't find anything wrong.  I am still finding things wrong.
But I still have a couple of weeks.

I keep looking at images that look funny.  I can do a gain/noise
experiment, and it makes sense on one channel, but not on the other.

I am alternating between frantic work and calm thought.  Sigh!

Tom Droege

At 05:39 PM 9/5/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Tom said that he had a terrible week.  Since he *found*
>the problems that were causing his headaches, I'd say
>that he had a GOOD week!
>  As soon as I get one tricolor PR image finished from
>the ASTROCAM commissioning run, I'll get back to TASS
>duties.
>Arne
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