Re: Tom's Big File Online

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

Tom,

Tom Droege wrote:

 > Later Michael can allow you to say run Welch-Stetson on the full data
 > base and output specific ranges or some such.  It is not clear that it
 > is fair to ask Michael to provide this kind of computation heavy
 > service.  Or that it is even possible.

It's just 0's and 1's. That's what computers are good at.

 > All I really asked Michael for was to save me sending out specific star
 > data.  So if one can say "send all the measurements on the star at RA,
 > Dec." then he has done what I asked.  I think the data base can now do
 > this.

Not a particular star, just an area of sky. But, that could be done too.
Like Vizier, etc., I could return a list of objects in the selected 
range. Then, the user could request the data for a particular object in 
the list.
I have all kinds of ideas on things that could be done with this.

Mike