Re: Asteroid Check

["Gary W. Billings" <obs681@telusplanet.net>]

If the idea is to go into the database and regularly spot-check asteroid
positions as we are doing now, I will do that.

I guess I'd better start learning how to use the TASS database!  I used to
do asteroid astrometry and submit observations to the MPC, so I'm familiar
with that part of it.

There *probably* isn't much value in actually submitting TASS asteroid
astrometry to the MPC, as the plate scale is quite large (or is that small
?-- I mean a large number of "/pxl) so the precision will be low compared to
other astrometric observers.  But, that will be subject to reassessment
after I see what the residuals look like.

g.





----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Droege" <tdroege2@earthlink.net>
To: "tass" <tass@listserv.wwa.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 8:55 AM
Subject: Asteroid Check


> OK, regardless of how this all turns out, it would seem to be a good thing
> to have a program that tracks asteroids in the tass data.
>
> Gary Billings has proposed the very clever idea that this would be a good
> check on the data.
>
> Doug Welch has provided a program that does this.  It there any asteroid
> enthusiast out there that would like to take this on as something to
watch?
> It would be a wonderful check on the data.
>
> Tom Droege
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