Re: Mark IV data off by one day

[Thomas Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

Richard,

Thank you.  You have been introduced to my spam blocker.  ;^) You are now
approved for mail to me.  You will have to resubscribe to tass from your
new address if you want to send mail to the list.

OK, you all are on to something and we will fix it.

Tom 


> [Original Message]
> From: Richard Miles <rmiles.btee@btinternet.com>
> To: <tdroege2@earthlink.net>; Billings, Gary W. <obs681@telusplanet.net>
> Date: 6/12/2004 2:53:08 AM
> Subject: Re: Mark IV data off by one day
>
> Gary / Tom,
>
> Don't rule this idea out just yet.
>
> The best of the candidate asteroids looks to be 739 Mandeville, which was
> near 220.7 deg RA and +18.9 deg Dec on the date in question.  This object
> was nominally at V=12.0 and moving at 13 arcmin/day.  Therefore it should
be
> possible to discriminate the actual day from images taken.
>
> Cheers,
> Richard Miles
>
> P.S. tried sending to TASS list earlier but my new address was not
> recognised and so it was thrown out.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Thomas Droege" <tdroege2@earthlink.net>
> To: "Billings, Gary W." <obs681@telusplanet.net>; <tass@listserv.wwa.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 2:54 AM
> Subject: Re: Mark IV data off by one day
>
>
> > Gary,
> >
> > A good idea.  It does not have to move much.  So a search for an
asteroid
> > in the data would tell since our astrometry is usually good to 1 arc
> > second.  An astroid that moved a few arc seconds a day would tell the
> tale.
> >
> > Anyone want to take this on?  What we need are mag 9-11 asteroida that
> move
> > say 10 or more arc seconds a day somewhere between 160 and 270 degrees
in
> > RA and 18 to 50 degrees in Dec.  The day is 2453109 If you get the
> position
> > of asteroids at the time that they cross the zenith they will be pretty
> > close in time to when I measure them.  I will need a few, because the
way
> I
> > was taking data in April only covered about half the sky.
> >
> > Tom Droege
> >
> >
> > > [Original Message]
> > > From: Gary W. Billings <obs681@telusplanet.net>
> > > To: <tass@listserv.wwa.com>
> > > Date: 6/10/2004 9:03:42 PM
> > > Subject: Re: Mark IV data off by one day
> > >
> > > If there are any frames from the day in question that captured a
> > > sufficiently bright moving asteroid...  that could move from "absence
of
> > > evidence" to "evidence of absence" of a day error...
> > >
> > > g.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Thomas Droege" <tdroege2@earthlink.net>
> > > To: "Man, Stupendous" <richmond@stupendous.cis.rit.edu>;
> > > <tass@listserv.wwa.com>
> > > Cc: <mwrsps@rit.edu>
> > > Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 5:24 PM
> > > Subject: RE: Mark IV data off by one day
> > >
> > >
> > > > Here is an attempt to look another way at the possibility that the
> Mark
> > IV
> > > > data was off one day on 2543109.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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