TASS Mark III Photometric Survey of the Celestial Equator

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 13th magnitude in several passbands. We explain the m...

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Published in:	Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Vol. 112; no. 769; pp. 397 - 408
Main Authors:	Richmond, Michael W., Droege, Thomas F., Gombert, Glenn, Gutzwiller, Michael, Henden, Arne A., Albertson, Chris, Beser, Nicholas, Molhant, Norman, Johnson, Herb
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	The University of Chicago Press 01-03-2000
Subjects:	Astronomical magnitude Cameras Cataloging Celestial equator Computer software Pixels Standard deviation Stars Variable stars
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Summary:	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 13th 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 1996 October to 1998 November, we compiled a large database of photometric measurements. One of our results is thetenxcatcatalog, 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.
ISSN:	0004-6280 1538-3873
DOI:	10.1086/316527