[BAA Comets] Submittings FITS images of 67P to the ESA/PSA archive

[Nick James]

Tony,

Thanks for the summary. It would be good to get a more detailed news 
item on the BAA website with the links you mention. I'll do this once I 
have your material. Thanks also for pointing people to the BAA material.

Regarding the cal frames do they really want everything? My flats, darks 
etc. are usually median stacks of a hundred frames or so. Do they want 
everything or just the actual stacked cal frames used.

Also, most of my 67P images are stacks of lots of short (60s) exposures. 
Do they want all the raw sub-frames as well as the calibrated stack or 
do they want calibrated subframes?

I can understand why they might want all of the original data but that 
means that there will be an awfully large number of files to upload and 
I'm not sure that the mandated naming system would work for so many files.

Nick.


> I am still getting over my trip back from Austria.  Never - if I can
> help it - will I catch the Graz to Vienna train again. The motion of it
> made me quite travel sick - which is something I have not suffered since
> a boy. Luckily I was traveling with Alan Fitzsimmons and his wife Ann
> who had a very wide brimmed hat which she used to waft me some air.
> Anyway.....
>
> There was quite a bit of discussion on data at the workshop lead by
> Colin. There had been quite a bit of misunderstanding in this area and I
> had already included within part of one of my slides:
>
> *Professionals use the same words as amateurs - however they do not
> always mean the same thing.*
>
> There were also two short talks discussing the data uploading and
> standards which were helpful, but only in the sense of getting to
> understand what is meant and not the details. (I will be including some
> web links to Nick) There was quite a conversation on the words calibrate
> and calibration what they meant to different people and how the words
> were used determined their meaning :) LOL This was one of the more
> humourous episodes of the workshop.
>
> I had explained that I took  raw images and that I applied a number of
> darks, a number of flats, a number of biases and a number of flat darks
> against these raw images to produce my final images. I then asked what
> of this do you want. The answer was everything plus a document with each
> run (Padma correct me if I am wrong) that explains how the observations
> were carried out. There was a question I did not ask which I am now
> kicking myself for to do with multiple scopes imaging at the same time.
>
> This means that for me I will create a directory for the run. In it will
> be a document plus a directory holding the raws, a directory holding the
> darks, a directory holding the flats, a directory holding the biases, a
> directory holding the flat darks and a directory holding the final images.
>
> I was in the process of writing a report to Nick when I saw this. I will
> mention a few things in brief.
>
> Padma and I represented the amateur contribution - which meant I was the
> only amateur in attendance - made very welcome by all. Padma did the
> amateur community proud and over the few days was doing a very good
> selling job to the other professionals.
>
> All presentations will be published on the net - however quite a bit of
> the information was embargoed because it has not been officially
> released - we were told to swallow cyanide pills rather than divulge
> embargoed information - the problem is that until the redacted
> presentations are published we will not know what was embargoed LOL. All
> I can say on the results is WOW. Padma being a professional herself may
> know more on what can be said now.
>
> I will be sending my presentations to Nick with my report. I got in a
> couple of good BAA plugs. One was the youtube video that Nick made of
> his talk on Ground Base Observations, the other was to tell them that
> The Alcock Project Web pages was the place to start for the
> professionals to understand the techniques, tools and capabilities of
> the amateurs. I noticed many of them noting it down.
>
> I had two slots. The first just a few slides along with all the other
> observers where I covered some of my observations. The second took place
> at the end of the morning session and it was running late. I am glad to
> say that this session which was about amateur capabilities and working
> with professionals went over time due to questions and comments and then
> there were about another 10 minutes of questions, so instead of 15
> minutes I had about 30 minutes. There was certainly a recognition that
> more work needs to be done on some common standards, utilities
> (including for file) for amateurs to use and help with filters both
> sloan and narrowband.
>
> As a middle of the ladder observer I was amazed by the amount of
> interest shown in what I had done, with many genuine requests to keep in
> touch.
>
> Nick I will be getting the rest to you soonest.
>
> One nice surprise was that Padma presented me with a 3-D printed scale
> model of 67P.
>
> Tony
>
>> Teerasak Thaluang has pointed out that Wendy Clark's notes about
>> renaming iTelescope images and uploading them to the PSA are only
>> available if you are logged in to Facebook. I've now placed them on
>> the BAA server and they are available via this article:
>>
>> https://britastro.org/node/7745
>>
>> Nick.
>>
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