Re: Clear Sky Detector Sees Clouds

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Tom, what is your sense of the kind of response time the detector has?  


Gary Billings



  Quoting Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>:

> As threatened, I have built a Clear Sky Detector and attached it to the 
> Mark IV.  This detector consists of a TEC attached to a plate which is "C" 
> clamped to the frame of the telescope.  The TEC sits at the bottom of a 
> foam/foil sandwich well.   The attempt is to make a directional radiation 
> device.  The TEC radiates to free space in a cone of about 10 degrees. It 
> points where the Mark IV points.  The signal from the detector is put into 
> one of the Mark IV data acquisition channels.
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