[AZ-Observing] Re: Summer Night Sky from Payson
- From: Brian Skiff <bas@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:37:30 -0700 (MST)
>> 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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