Progress

[Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

I have had the flu which is slowing me down.  Sigh!

I can find nothing wrong with the current data collection scheme.  I figure 
I have given the ol' college try to find any problems.  What remain, if 
any, will be.

I have taken flat fields with TOM2 in preparation for data taking.  The way 
I have mounted TOM2 and TOM3 it is a two man job - or at least someone 
other than me - to take flats.  This is because one has to climb up into 
the dome to put on the flat field box.  I took quite a few good looking 
images with TOM2 last night.  The hope is that I can use them to get the 
pointing calibrated.

I am slowly getting three computers set up for production running on an 
accumulation of about 12000 images.  I figure it will take me a week or two 
to process them with three computers running.  I plan to process this set 
with both tight and loose selection limits.  Then I will make some decision 
as to where to set them for production.  There is always a trade off 
between quality and quantity of data.

Tom Droege