Re: [TASS] Flat fielding

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

On Tue, 21 Sep 1999 09:31:14 -0700 "Arne A. Henden"
<aah@NOFS.NAVY.MIL> wrote (Re: New Data Handling Paradigms?):
>  I do not intend to support user requests for CCD images.

Oh dear.
I withdraw all requests for raw data, whether concerning
Mk III flat fielding or anything else.

I don't want to incur the wrath of the priesthood and
get fixed by Aaron's lot (or was it Jehovah?) like the
uppity junior priests who wanted a bigger part in the
higher mysteries. They got napalm in their incense
burners. Very nasty.

But I solemnly warn you. The Mk III flat fielding sort of
works because, and only because, drift scan is easy. The
Mk IV is worse by a factor of several in DEC times a factor
of two thousand and thirty two in RA. Woe to those who
build their sacred star lists on a foundation of wispy
cloud.

Oh winnow all my folly, folly, folly,
  and you'll find
A grain or two of truth among the chaff!
(W. S. Gilbert; The Yeomen of the Guard)