[AZ-Observing] Re: Summer Night Sky from Payson
- From: "Jimmy Ray" <jimmy_ray@xxxxxxx>
- To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:16:23 -0700
Excellent explanation, idea and understood.
Thank you,
Jimmy Ray
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From: "Brian Skiff" <bas@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 22:37
Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Summer Night Sky from Payson
>>> 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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