Data Last Night

[Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

Last night there appeared to be a thunderstorm coming so I shut up the 
telescope after one run.  There were clouds at the end so I only got 40 
good image pairs.  I wrote the files to disk, and by midnight I had reduced 
them to star lists.  Not quite real time, but close.  About 40,000 
measurements added to the stack.  Of course I am just doing this for 
practice.  Everything will have to be processed again when we get the next 
round of fixes to the software.

I can see that fixes are in sight to get pretty good data.  Not as accurate 
as one might like for planet hunting, but still useful for generating good 
science catalogs.

My plan is to get the obvious fixes in place, then process all the data I 
have as an engineering paper.  It is so close that I can taste it!

Tom Droege