Re: [TASS] New Data Handling Paradigms?

[Herbert R Johnson <hjohnson@PLUTO.NJCC.COM>]

On         Mon, 20 Sep 1999 08:11:20 -0500, Tom Droege <droege@WWA.COM> wrote:
*>As a reality check, on the 17th I ran all night and got 75 frames in V and
*>I.  The raw data fits on 2 CD ROMS.  In the past raw data/star lists = 10.
*>So we might get 120 Mbytes of star lists a night per location.
*>
*>On the average, I get 6 good nights a month.  This is one CD ROM of star
*>lists every 3 weeks or so to mail off to a data base.
*>
*>Tom Droege

The production of star lists will be dependent on crowding, limiting
magnitude, the PSF, and so on. I think it will have to be determined
operationally, and presuming the use of adapted Mark III data reduction
tools. A better figure of merit might be the ratio of fields of view,
assuming everything else is equal, and some multiplier for the presumed
difference in limiting magnitude....well, real results will tell the tale.

Herb JOhnson

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