Re: TASS data in aavso format

[Tom Droege <tdroege@veriomail.com>]

Aaron,

Just remember that there are no rules in tass.  The reason that tass 
measurements have not been submitted to the AAVSO is that no one has set 
out to do it.  I started to write "no one in tass" - but there is no one in 
tass.  There are no members as such as there are also no non-members.  The 
data is public and anyone can do with it what they want.

Now having said that, the preferred method to do things with the tass data 
is to work on it in public consulting the group as you go.  This gives you 
a chance to receive our encouragement and wisdom as you go along.  In the 
end, you do what you do with the tass data as an individual.  Or as a group 
of individuals that collaborate.  Of course, one should give a credit to 
tass in any publication that uses tass data.

There are lots of things that could be done with the tenxcat.  It just 
takes someone to try.  When it gets big enough, the professionals will move 
it.  So far it has not reached that critical mass.

I hope that you don't mind that I am also sending this to the tass list.  I 
think the concepts are of general interest.

This was prompted by a post that I made to the AAVSO list where I looked up 
one of their program stars in tenxcat.  Bill Dillon had asked why we were 
not submitting AAVSO program star data after I had mentioned that I had a 
lot of data sitting on my desk that could analyzed for such measurements.

Tom Droege

At 02:53 PM 10/26/00 -0400, you wrote:

>  Hi, I'm new to TASS and have only been following TASS since
>this discussion began. I recently purchased a CCD (starlight mx916) and
>complete filter sets to do photometry for GRBs and supernova, but need a
>long time to get over the learning curve. TASS sounds very neat to me and
>very useful. I wanted to ask if there is a specific reason why TASS data
>is not being submitted to the AAVSO. Is it because of the AAVSO format
>requirement? If so, I will be glad to write a program to convert your data
>to AAVSO format. I have alot fo experience programming database
>scripts for the AAVSO format requirements. :) Maybe that is something I
>can contibute while I get my CCD skills up to par.
>
>Aaron Price
>"We are the music makers. We are dreamers of dreams."
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