Re: Good news on the reduction front

[Tom Droege <tdroege@veriomail.com>]

This sounds like good news to me.  I assume that the output is a star list 
in some format.  Would it be possible to post a few lines of output so I 
could see what it looks like?

I am hoping for something where I can mount a disk and type a few things 
from an instruction sheet and then let it run.  It is beginning to sound 
like this might be possible.  I have a nice Linux machine just sitting 
there and a big stack of data disks.  ;^)  I am retired and need things to 
do.  I am getting tired of trying to make money in the stock market, though 
I seem to be doing OK.

Tom Droege

At 08:52 AM 5/23/01 -0400, you wrote:

>   Last night, just before I left the office, I popped
>Data Disk 18b into the CD-Rom drive.  When I got home,
>I finished some important business (watching the season
>finale of "Buffy"), then dialed into my computer at work.
>I edited one file from the distribution kit --
>changing the input_dir and output_dir values in the
>"setup.param" file -- and then started the pipeline
>cranking away.  Since I was at home, I couldn't watch
>everything as it ran, so I just logged off and went to
>sleep.
>
>   Lo and behold, this morning, when I came into work, I found
>that the entire night had run through the pipeline without
>an (obvious) error: the photometric solution for the
>entire night was:
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>V=V,(V-I)  N   1150  a  -8.684  0.012  b  -0.236  0.010   RMS  0.119
>I=I,(I-V)  N   1150  a  -8.283  0.008  b   0.063  0.007   RMS  0.102
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>   Now, of course, I need to look at the diagnostics and the
>corrected data frames to verify that clouds weren't a problem,
>etc., but I am happy to see that the software can digest
>an entire night without crashing.  A good sign.
>
>   On the other hand, Michael Sallman just filed the first bug
>report based on the latest distribution of the pipeline, so
>it's not all beer and skittles.
>
>                                         Michael Richmond
>