FreeLists / az-observing / [AZ-Observing] Re: Summer Night Sky from Payson

[Brian Skiff <bas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>  Please expand on your thoughts below as far as the intended outcome
>>  (especially the second one)...

     There's continuing need for a sky patrol even at (or maybe
especially at) bright magnitudes.  The idea would be that the
images---given lots of storage space and bandwidth---could be
served as part of the "virtual observatory".  
     The reason for suggesting stopping the lens down a bit is
to sharpen up the images, sacrificing efficiency somewhat for
precision.  The better images would make astrometry and photometry
better.
     Such a sky patrol would have come in handy for the bright
lensing event in Cassiopeia a year or so ago, and even the current
outburst of the bright dwarf nova in Pegasus, where _no_ 
observations were made between the first hint of the outburst
noticed by European observers, and the much brighter state
found by Japanese observers---not a single observer in North America
caught it on the relevant night!


\Brian
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