We continue to take data with TOM1, but the clouds have moved in and I don't expect much for the next few months. The stack of data is now about 230 ROMs, up from 110 last month. The data looks better and better. I estimate that we have 20 million measurements of 150,000 stars accumulated so far.
The light box was dug out of the cabinet and flats were taken with it. They looked pretty good, so these flat runs became the basis for a new data distribution, Data Set 20. This was a 10 CD set and it took some time to duplicate the 150 or so disks sent out.
TOM2 has seen stars. Some time was spent rebuilding the dome supports that hold the telescopes so that TOM2 and TOM3 could be leveled and aligned. I forgot to take into account that the roof under the dome is not completely flat. The alignment would appear to be better than TOM1. The cameras just barely fit in the dome. ( A 7' diameter clam shell). I had to have Dan make short lens shields to fit. The first data had funny rings around saturated stars but was taken without lens shields. A brief data run indicates that the lens shields might reduce this problem.
I have started to learn Linux. I will be hard to get along with for the winter months when I plan to just sit in front of a terminal and struggle.