Re: [TASS] Proposal for a second TASS Database.

[Andrew Bennett <andrew.bennett@NS.SYMPATICO.CA>]

On Thu, 9 Sep 1999 16:27:26 -0700, Chris Albertson
<calbertson@LOGICON.COM> wrote:

>I'd like to set up a second publicly accessible TASS database.
>This would be an "experimental" database as opposed to the
>"production" database at rit.edu.

May I be the first to jump up and down and
express enthusiasm!

>
>This new database's main purpose would be to advance
>the state of the art in tass databases, test new software, operational
>methods and so on.

My ignorance of modern databases is complete
(even after reading the entire postgreSQL HowTo)
but might this just possibly include, for example,
trying out the method of differential photometry of
C. Alard & R. H. Lupton, astro-ph/9712287, ApJ 503,
325 1998?

Of course, this, like every other bright scheme that
occurs to me, requires access to raw data, all the data,
nothing but the data. Well, not all the data at once.
Just all the data for a selected chunk of RA. At a
guess, just a few hundred Mk III images ...

Andrew Bennett, Avondale Vineyard, Nova Scotia, Canada.