alfredo caronia Apr 6, 2013
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> Hi Alfredo,
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> Thanks for pointing this out to me.
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> Skip Gaede has already done the hard part; there's a text file on the
> SkyChart page
> containing the IDs of all the afflicted stars. I could pretty easily write
> a little
> program that would read his text file in and modify the "streak" stars
> accordingly.
> (Looks as if there are now another 51210 of them, in addition to those
> identified
> in the production of UCAC4.)
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> I've just e-mailed Skip Gaede and Norbert Zacharias about this. My guess
> is that
> one or both of them may already have written the software to fix those
> 50210 stars
> (most near the galactic center). I'd prefer not to re-invent the wheel.
> I've also
> asked for confirmation that this is all the streaks they expect to find,
> at least
> for a while.
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> But once there's a "final" list of streak stars, it'll be simple to fix
> them.
>
> -- Bill
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