Re: Everything is Hotsy-Totsy Now

[Michael Sallman <msallman@pro-ns.net>]

Tom et al,

>Tom Droege wrote:
> 
> That is what I was playing on my CD when the run ended.  One of the hits of
> 1925 played by the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks.
 
So, did they coin the phrase Hotsy-Totsy? Just asking, it might be one
of those trivial pieces of knowledge with which to wow friend and family
:-)

I just finished processing Disks 4 & 5 from DS20. I had some problems
with the first few pairs of images. I assumed it was from the clouds. I
skipped the first five pairs and everything ran without a hitch. 

A couple of questions:
Apparently, from looking at the next few images I didn't skip, we are
able to process these images even with some clouds. Would we want to
(does it affect the photometry)? 
If so, how much cloud cover is too much? If not, should/could the system
be automated to skip those pairs of images that crash the pipeline?
With regard to flats, I noticed that Michael added a parameter in
make_flat.param to differentiate between observation flats and
twilight/light box/etc. flats. How would the clouds affect the flats?

Now back to the pipeline. Disks 7 & 8 await.

Mike