Happy Hunting

[Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

I have now been able to work 4 or 5 disk pairs through the pipeline.  There 
have been various problems, but I am able to get data that I can look at.

Every disk pair seems to have a couple of interesting stars.  These are all 
potential short period vairables.  Most are only changing 0.05 mag or so 
over the 2.2 hour run.  There are a couple of what look like eclipsing 
binaries.  The dip being 1/4 to 1 hour long.  This seems quit short to me 
for an eclipse.  So possibly it is something else.  So far most of the dips 
have come in the IR band, so perhaps it is just some IR sky 
phenomena.  Still, they  look significant when I plot them with a similar 
star of the same magnitude and coloring.

In any case, there seems to be plenty to look at.

I have some 200+ disk pairs at this time, and get more every month.  So one 
telescope might produce a thousand or so interesting objects a year.

As time goes on, we will get longer period data and this number will 
increase quite a bit.

Lots of fun is ahead.

Tom Droege