RE: About TASS

["Thomas F. Droege" <droege@fastmail.fm>]

Hi Dave,

My idea is to get started a little early so later someone does not
say "If only he had told us xxx".  The main data is available several
places.  There are lots of new variable stars, especially longer
periods, that have not been extracted from the data.  Lots of fun, I
think but I just ran out of energy.  Also there is lots of raw data that
I can send to any raw data fanatic.

Mining the data base for "possibly interesting" stars, one could get a
relatively cheap telescope and CCD camera and computer and then track
the interesting star over a season.  A good project, I think.  One needs
to have something in retirement else you go nuts.  I would have long ago
died of boredom without tass. 

Tom Droege   



On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:52:18 -0500, "DaveHamilton"
<davehamilton@alltel.net> said:
> Very hard to read this .. I am a retiring college math teacher and member
> of
> AAVSO who has lurked here for a couple years thinking this data is what I
> should do with my spare time.   I certainly would give you my time to
> help
> you make what ever moves come up in the discussion.
> 
> Dave
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas F. Droege [mailto:droege@fastmail.fm] 
> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 4:26 PM
> To: tass@tass-survey.org
> Subject: About TASS
> 
> I have had cancer since 1998.  It has now progressed to the point that I
> don't have the energy to climb up on the roof and run the survey.  One
> does
> not get a straight answer when one asks "when" but I think it is months
> not
> years now.  The last PSA was 1035 and the previous month it was 700. 
> Those
> of a computational bent can compute when I will be 100% tumor.  
> 
> Death is a natural progression of life and I don't see this as anything
> special.  I have had a full life and lots of fun.  There are no regrets
> and
> I am at peace about it.  
> 
> This brings up some questions.
> 
> What to do with TASS?
> 
> What to do with the data?
> 
> What to do with all this stuff that will go in the ash can if I don't
> give
> it directly to someone?
> 
> Possibly we can discuss this here over the next few weeks.  
> --
>   Thomas F. Droege
>   droege@fastmail.fm
> 
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