Abstract
The Amateur Sky Survey (TASS) is a loose confederation of amateur and professional astronomers. We describe the design and construction of our Mark IV systems, a set of wide-field telescopes with CCD cameras which take simultaneous images in the V and IC passbands. We explain our observational procedures and the pipeline which processes and reduces the images into lists of stellar positions and magnitudes. We have compiled a large database of measurements for stars in the northern celestial hemisphere with V -band magnitudes in the range 7 < V < 13. This paper describes data taken over the four-year period starting November, 2001. One of our results is a catalog of repeated measurements on the Johnson-Cousins system for over 4.3 million stars.
Publication Date
12-6-2006
Document Type
Article
Department, Program, or Center
School of Physics and Astronomy (COS)
Recommended Citation
Thomas F. Droege et al 2006 PASP 118 1666 https://doi.org/10.1086/510197
Campus
RIT – Main Campus
Comments
© 2006. The Astronomical Society of the Pacific. All rights reserved. This is the pre-print of an article published by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. The final, published version is located here: https://doi.org/10.1086/510197
Also archived in: arXiv:astro-ph/0610529 v1 Oct 17 2006
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