[vsnet-chat 5908] Re: ResSkySurvey and PIXY

["Stan Walker" <astroman@xtra.co.nz>]

An interesting comment. Didn't see TK's original comment buried in a stack
of GCN messages but I was puzzled by the comments about accuracy in some of
the replies. How is it discoraging visual observers if the results can't be
published?

Regards,
Stan


----- Original Message -----
From: "Seiichi Yoshida" <comet@aerith.net>
To: <vsnet-chat@ooruri.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 6:23 AM
Subject: [vsnet-chat 5895] Re: ResSkySurvey and PIXY


> Dear Taichi and Maciej,
>
> Taichi wrote in [vsnet-chat 5884]:
> >    Oh, it sounds to me that PIXY is simply killing world-most-productive
> > visual observers...
>
> That's completely right.
>
> I think that is not the problem on the PIXY only.
>
> Now we have so many CCD images, which contain so many variable
> stars. We can measure those magnitude using a software automatically,
> but they will contain some errors in the results. Before reporting to
> the public society, we have to delete those errors by hand.
>
> As I wrote before, it is impossible to check all data and delete
> errors within our lives :-(
>
> So, what those who have huge amount of CCD images should do?
>
> - Publish unchecked raw data at their own web sites, without reporting
>   to the public society?
>
> - Select some special stars, check the data of them, and report the
>   magnitude of them only?
>
> Those two are current my thoughts on the MISAO Project activity after
> this.
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Seiichi Yoshida
> comet@aerith.net
> http://vsnet.aerith.net/

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