Re: "Getting Ready To Get Ready"

["Glenn Gombert" <glenngombert@hotmail.com>]

Tom,

I am putting together an rackmounted Linux system that I will use for data 
reduction that will also run the Mark IV Camera here in Datyon. I will put 
Michael's suite of programs on it as well as IRAF and the scripts that Arne 
is using to reduce data with. I will try and bring this to your place when 
Mike and I come out to put up MIKE and GLENN..I hope to spend a couple days 
at your place..we can go over some reduction software and also get familiar 
with the Mark IV System(s) before they get packed up and sent back to Ohio.

If we are going to hunt for planets..that means that we need to do the best 
possible photometry we can..I am sure that Arne and Michael will have much 
to teach us ..to get to the point we need to be to see planet transients..as 
well as just do the job we need to do with the Mark IV's that Tom has 
investing all his time and money putting together...

Glenn G.


Glenn G.


>From: Tom Droege <tdroege@veriomail.com>
>To: tass@listserv.wwa.com
>Subject: Re: "Getting Ready To Get Ready"
>Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 18:30:08 -0500
>
>Glenn and all,
>
>Glad to see Glenn is waking up and thinking about using the Mark IV.  It 
>helps me to keep going when there is interest.
>
>One of the things I am interested in getting is a pipeline to run my data.  
>I now have a stack of disks with WCS coordinates on them just right for 
>Glenn to tune his pipeline.  Just ask Glenn, and I will send as many as you 
>can stand.
>
>Glenn, I have been doing just what you want.  Sitting at 0 Declination and 
>just taking fields.  I get each star 5-6 times a night.  I think I have 5 
>WCS nights so far, so about 25 measurements of many stars.
>
>I think there should be no practical difference in the data taken with the 
>QB program now and the future/present real time system.  Possibly the real 
>time system will have a better time measurement.  The shutter timing now 
>looks pretty good.
>
>I am hoping that when Mike and Glenn come here to pick up their systems 
>that they will also come with some software and educate me on how to use 
>it.  I have plenty of computers just waiting to try out software.  I also 
>have a stack of data with WCS on it.   I would like to try to reduce some 
>data to star lists while they are here to help me learn what to do.  Often 
>it is just doing it once that is needed.
>
>I too am interested in the planet hunting.  There is also something else 
>that might be fun, with a dual system in Chicago and systems in Cincinnati 
>or Dayton there is a pretty good base line.  If I have done the math 
>correctly, then we should be able to measure distance beyond orbit of the 
>moon.  There are supposed to be frequent small objects in this space.  It 
>would be fun to have two Mark IVs look at the same spot in the sky at the 
>same time.  Since each one is a pair, there would be good funny object 
>detection from a single site.  With two sites, and the right object not 
>moving too fast, one gets a trajectory.  Note that one has plenty of 
>satellites for calibration.  Probably a long shot, but it could be done at 
>the same time as other projects.  There is another reason for doing this, 
>even more far out.
>
>Tom Droege
>
>
>
>At 05:14 PM 4/24/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello Tom & All,
>
>   Now that spring is here (and work has quieted down a bit) I am really 
>getting excited about getting a Mark IV installed and up and running here 
>in Dayton collecting data again !!  It looks like Tom might have MICHEL and 
>GLENN ready for a trip to Ohio about the first week in July (that’s based 
>on where things are now)..I guess Tom will fill in the details as he 
>getting both systems ready to make a trip east.
>
>I was reviewing some of the e-mail from last fall to now and was trying to 
>come up with a ‘game plan’ for the Mark IV when it finally getting 
>installed here in Dayton. The following list is what I had in mind …after 
>reviewing the comments
>
>

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