Re: Analyzing Data

[Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

Glad to see that Andrew takes a break from the pruning from time to 
time.  We do our best to entertain.

We do want to find all there is to find.  I note that some stars are quite 
constant over many different evenings of measurement.  Some are 
not.  Perhaps we should study why stars are constant rather than why stars 
vary from night to night?

Tom Droege

12:35 AM 8/8/02 +0100, you wrote:
>On Sun, 4 Aug 2002 14:34:18 -0400 (EDT), Doug Welch wrote:
>
> >
> >Tom,
> >
> >I suspect that a very successful minor modification to the
> >WS statistic would be for it to calculate residuals from a
> >given night's mean magnitude instead of a global mean magnitude.
> >This would get rid of the effects of zero-point changes which
> >aren't currently calibrated out.
>
>But only if we all agree that we are not looking
>for anything except short period variables!
>
>Andrew Bennett, Avondale Vineyard