Re: Progress

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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:33:57 -0500
From: Michael Sallman <msallman@pro-ns.net>
To: Tass Mailing List <tass@mail.alembic.net>
Subject: Re: Progress

Tom,

Yep, still here and still caring! :-)

I have spent this year learning to use my CCD, hoping to follow up on
different TASS stars.

One I was really excited about was GSC 0493-0801 (190094 in the
database). which appeared to show a mid-eclipse brightening in the TASS
data:
http://sallman.tass-survey.org/markiv/images/mid-eclipse.png

I observed 3 eclipses this summer, one of which yielded a pretty good
complete eclipse lightcurve:
http://sallman.tass-survey.org/markiv/images/190094_bin.png

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like there was any unusual activity in my
lightcurve. I was hoping to get another eclipse this month, but the
weather hasn't been too favorable here lately.

There are quite a few more that I hope to observe. Just need some clear
skies.....

Keep up the good work Tom!

Mike

Tass Mailing List wrote:
> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:39:37 -0500
> From: Thomas F. Droege <droege@fastmail.fm>
> To: tass@tass-survey.org
> Subject: Progress
>
> Good progress is being made in reprocessing the data to remove the
> errors from the longitude entry.  We have completed tom2 and tom3.  tom1
> is over half completed.  Data for each tom will take about 3 DVDs for
> storage.
>
> I am getting a faster computer and plan on woring on the data to get it
> into shape to find variable stars.  We also have commissioned some
> software to make this easier, and Michael Richmond has written some
> additional softwere to make it easier for me to use Patrick Wills
> software.
>
> All this means that it will be possible to crank out a bunch of new
> variables.  The data spans nearly 5 years.  This should make accurate
> determination of periods possible.  The bad data points no doubt made
> variable searching difficult.  The cleaned up data should be easier to
> use.
>
> Is anyone left here that cares?
>
> Tom Droege