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[Fwd: Re: re 23 59 12.0 +55 46 01]
Thought I'd forward this on. I need to learn to hit "Reply All".
Mike
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Subject: Re: re 23 59 12.0 +55 46 01
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 21:13:27 -0600
From: Michael Sallman <msallman@pro-ns.net>
To: Stupendous Man <richmond@stupendous.cis.rit.edu>
References: <200502022258.RAA12418@stupendous.cis.rit.edu>
Michael,
Stupendous Man wrote:
> SOMEONE could perform a valuable service by doing a little
> digging, finding more examples of bright stars and fainter
> stars nearby, and putting together a table like this:
>
> For a star of magnitude expect contamination within
> ------------------------- ------------------------------
> 0 30 arcmin
> 1 12 arcmin
> 4 3 arcmin
> .... .....
>
> and so forth.
>
> Volunteers, anyone?
As I am sitting on top of my database, as it were, I'll take a shot at it.
Some early results from exit polling (sorry, I have the State of the
Union Address on in the background):
Star Vmag Contamination
=====================================================
HD 124897 (Arcturus) -0.40 No stars within .1 degree
HD 34029 (Capella) 0.08 No stars within .1 degree
I used the .1 degree radius to find a star to run your ensemble program
against. I have increased the search radius to 1 degree. We'll see what
I get.
> I figure that it would take a day or so
> for someone to work out a decent procedure, and then another
> day to pick out 10 or 20 sample bright stars of a range
> of magnitudes, and check the Mark IV measurements around them.
> Well, maybe a couple of more days. (Of course, since 1 day
> of effort requires 10 calendar days, this could possibly
> take a month or so of real time; less, perhaps, for someone
> who can write scripts to access a database fluently....)
Well, it looks like I'm ahead of schedule so far. :-)
Mike