Website for 61-inch:                                                     
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- http://james.as.arizona.edu/~psmith/61inch//                           
                                                                         
                                                                         
Questions for Fink and/or Meech:                                         
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- FITS headers do not indicate a filter.  No filters used?               
                                                                         
- FITS headers state the LPL CCD was used.  Was this one of the          
  old but replaced "Direct imaging CCDs", as mentioned at the            
  telescope's website?                                                   
                                                                         
                                                                         
Image Orientation:                                                       
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  Using the fr94d029.fit image from June 12 1994 06:23:58 UT,            
  the comet was located at RA = 13 10 21.6 and DEC -1 37 58.7.           
  I used USNO A2.0 catalog and charting online service at                
  http://www.nofs.navy.mil/data/FchPix/ to generate a 10x10 arcmin       
  sky chart.  Sky charts and ephemeris are stored here:                  
                                                                         
     /n/tempel/stefmcl/pds_work/bigelow94_fink_9p/*sky_chart*jpg         
     /n/tempel/stefmcl/pds_work/bigelow94_fink_9p/eph_1994Jun12_14.txt   
                                                                         
  The fr94d029.fit image, at 512x512 pixels, is about 8.5x8.5 arcmin.    
  All other images have a much smaller FOV.                              
                                                                         
  A comparison of fr94d029.fit with the USNO sky chart shows that        
  when the FITS image is displayed in IDL with:                          
                                                                         
    SAMPLE_DISPLAY_DIRECTION = "RIGHT"                                   
    LINE_DISPLAY_DIRECTION   = "UP"                                      
    AXIS_ORDER_TYPE          = "FIRST_INDEX_FASTEST"                     
                                                                         
  Then North is Right (increasing DEC with increasing AXIS1/col number)  
  and East is Up (increasing RA with increasing AXIS2/row number         
                                                                         
  To get North Up and East Right in an IDL display, rotate the           
  image 90 degrees counter-clockwise.                                    
                                                                         
                                                                         
Original Email from Mike                                                 
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From ma@astro.umd.edu Thu Feb 19 09:19:58 2004                           
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:23:20 -0500                                    
From: Mike A'Hearn <ma@astro.umd.edu>                                    
To: "McLaughlin, Stefanie" <stefmcl@astro.umd.edu>,                      
     "Belton, Michael J. S." <MichaelBelton@beltonspace.com>,            
     "Meech, Karen J." <meech@ifa.hawaii.edu>                            
Cc: "A'Hearn, Michael F." <ma@astro.umd.edu>,                            
     "Farnham, Tony" <farnham@astro.umd.edu>                             
Subject: Tempel 1 images                                                 
                                                                         
Colleagues,                                                              
                                                                         
       I have now received 6 FITS images of Tempel 1 from Uwe Fink.      
They are all from 1994, on Mar 17, Apr 12 (2 images), Jun 12, Jun 13,    
and Jun 14.  All are in FITS format.                                     
                                                                         
Stef -- they are in /home/ma/tmp/t1images/.   Would you please           
collect them for our archive and make sure they are saved?               
                                                                         
Everyone - is anyone interested in working on these images?  Karen -     
it is not clear whether your student is better occupied working          
through your data right now or starting on these.  I don't know who      
else has time free now.  I can talk to a few of our people, but the      
only ones with experience finding features in images of cometary         
comae are quite busy (Tony, me).                                         
                                                                         
	Mike                                                                    
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