Re: Target zone selection

[Tom Droege <tdroege@veriomail.com>]

At 11:46 AM 10/31/00 -0500, you wrote:
Doug and all,

Doug and all,

The Mark IV can follow a field for about two hours.  During that time you 
should be able to get an exposure pair about every 3-4 minutes or 
so.  Since we will have locations on the east coast(2), mid west (3-5) 
arizona (1) and west coast (1) (or two with you); seems like we have a 
pretty good chance to follow a field for nearly 6 hours.

We are not very far from being able to do this.  Someone rooting for such 
data would be inspiring to me on days when I find it hard to get out of bed 
and check out more pc cards and cameras.

Getting everyone to work together on such a program would be a test of your 
salesmanship.  ;^)

Note that there may be good arguments for putting all the Mark IVs in the 
US where we don't have delivery and customs problems.  While I stick with 
my plan to put most of them in amateur locations, they could be dispersed 
to increase the probability of clear sky at at one installation per 
longitude.  It is a question of what we will want to do with them.   I am 
more a tool maker than a tool user, but I will have several installations 
here and I will take data for the most persuasive program.  For me this 
means the one that actually gets data pushed through the pipeline.

Tom Droege




> > And so it goes. What will you do with a Mark IV?
>
>Hi Tom et al,
>
>(snip)
>TASS imagers would be ideal for this program (and others like
>it) because of the need for long time baseline, frequent
>imaging of relatively large areas of sky. Basically, one
>could not get enough observing time to do this type of work
>any other way!
>
>Cheers,
>Doug
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