Re: Interesting reading

[Chris Albertson <chrisalbertson90278@yahoo.com>]

I like the part where it says

  "An amateur astronomer could do this, except maybe for
   the debugging of the software, which requires several
   people working 10 hours a day,"

I'm sure most of us would agree. 

The project sounds almost identical to the Mark IV except they
are using a shorter focal length lens but a much higher quality
Leica makes a 280mm f/4.0 lens.  They don't make a 300 so I assume
someone rounded up.  Lenses don't get much better quality then
Leica.  It sells for $4600. Being such a sharp lens their stars
are even more under sampled then TASS'.  Maybe a one pixel PSF?
They are likely using a very sturdy computer controlled mount too.

The Dollar figure on the CCD says they may even be using the same 
CCD as the Mark IV, just the #1 grade.

They don't talk about filters but then this is a press release for
the general public.    

I would be very much be interested in finding out about their
software.  Whatever they use would be directly applicable to TASS
as it is clear TASS and this system are a lot a like.



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