Everything is Working

["Thomas Droege" <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

Last night's data was good enough to get all the pipelines straightened
out.  One problem was using an editor with word wrap on to edit a perl
file.  I did not get an error but it did not do the right thing.  This
evening early I made darks.  For Michael's benefit, by the time I could get
to process them I had collected 30 files for each camera to make the darks.
I will make flats tomorrow morning from this evenings run.

Tonight all 6 cameras are focused and taking data.  I can see the tilt
improvement, so that is a good sign.  With everything working smoothly I
have a little better focus than usual.  

Michael, I could set up the pipeline so that it first picked a reasonable
number of images from the night's running and made a flat from them to use
for that run.  What do you think?  In the past I have used a good clear
evening to make the flat.  Unless talked into something else, that is what
I will continue to do.  Of course if something happens to the lenses, (like
a little rain) I will make a new flat.

I declare this the official start of the new observing season.  Rahh!

Tom Droege


Tom  Droege Jennifer Malpass
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