Kurt, Are you aware of AAVSO, the American Association of Variable Star Observers (http://www.aavso.org)? While astrometry is not a particular interest of mine, a good friend has been an officer with the association for years, so I'm aware of what they do. They're set up to provide support and guidelines for doing astrometry and photometry. The observations reported by contributors are real honest-to-goodness science. If you don't know about them, take a peek at the website. Michael On Sep 10, 2006, at 5:46 PM, Canopus56 wrote:
I am interested in starting a Salt Lake City area MPO Canopus study group. For those unaware of it, MPO Canopus is astrometry and photometry reduction software.
http://www.minorplanetobserver.com/
A predicate question is whether there are enough MPO owners in Utah to warrant such a group. I would like to do an initial survey of interest.
If you are interested in such a user group, that would meet every two or three weeks initially at the City Library, please post here or send me an email. The general idea would be for users to give short presentations on those parts of the program that they have mastered.
My own interest is that I have been working through the manual trying to learn it and am a bit overwhelmed. Perhaps if there was a small local study group, all of us could move forward with reductions.
- Kurt
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