The Amateur Sky Survey Mark III Project

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14 October 1999

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/9910267

Abstract

The Amateur Sky Survey (TASS) is a loose confederation of amateur and professional astronomers. We describe the design and construction of our Mark III system, a set of wide-field drift-scan CCD cameras which monitor the celestial equator down to thirteenth magnitude in several passbands. We explain the methods by which images are gathered, processed, and reduced into lists of stellar positions and magnitudes. Over the period October, 1996, to November, 1998, we compiled a large database of photometric measurements. One of our results is the "tenxcat" catalog, which contains measurements on the standard Johnson-Cousins system for 367,241 stars; it contains links to the light curves of these stars as well.

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Published version: Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 112 (769), 397.

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