Busy Taking Data

[Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

There has been an unusual string of clear nights for November.  I have TOM1 
running and am taking lots of data.  Last night I ran for over 12 
hours.  This morning I got up at 7 AM or so and wrote the data to 
disks.  Then I started the pipeline at 9 AM or so and went back to bed.  It 
is still running at 5 PM.  So at 5 PM I am starting another run.  OK, 
eventually I will cut out the middle man of writing to CDs.  But not yet.

I have been running a 4 degree grid.  Last night covered about 20 by 180 
degrees of sky.  3600 square degrees and 300 thousand or so stars.  I now 
have 7 nights with data since the end of November when I started these 
runs.  Looks like I may get a few more before the weather gives out.  I 
think there were 750,000 measurements at last count.

The present data run covers -6 to +14 degrees in declination and RA from 
about 330 to 180 so far.  If anyone has particular interest in stars in 
this area, I can dig out data.  I guess I have a few more measurements of 
HD932 which I can contribute when needed.

Tom Droege