XPost: alt.astronomy   
   From: kym@kymhorsell.com   
      
   In alt.ufo.reports MrPostingRobot@kymhorsell.com wrote:   
   > The TESS project is yet another space telescope that looked for   
   > various things -- e.g. planetary transits -- in stellar light curves.   
   > Various sub-projects have looked at parts of the enormous data stream that   
   > came off the telescope and I've zeroed in on DIAmante that looked at   
   > mostly dim M-class stars mostly in the S Hem.   
   ...   
      
   The programs are fishing around in the TESS dataset to find something   
   interesting. I've put the latest version of the output up on   
   .   
      
   There are now 4 belts showed in parallel each 10 deg wide at   
   Dec -65 -55 +55 and +65.   
      
   The "time" is the usual number of Julian days (in 1/10ths of days)   
   from the TESS origin at 1 Jan 2015.   
      
   Interesting trashing starts around t=1800.   
      
   The plot is still very crude and we're iterating to a nice pretty   
   colored density plot. But a couple weeks to go.   
      
   In the meantime I'm starting to learn about the data.   
      
   It seems the telescope concentrates on different parts of the sky   
   at each "sector" of the dataset. A "sector" is essentially some   
   sequential number of its 2-week orbits between the E and M.   
      
   So looking at the movie at this point sees first some activity in   
   one hemisphere, then the other, then shifting back and forward.   
   Only occasionally does the scope point in a direction where it gets   
   stars in each hem so each band of the plot has data at the same time.   
      
   But, anyway, it's starting to show patterns that look like shadows   
   falling first here, then there, then back again which is what   
   the stats programs are saying when they compare the variations in   
   brightness of each 10x10 deg patch of the sky TESS has seen in   
   the past 4y with UFO activity seen in the skies over the US and Canada   
   over the same time (day by day resolution).   
      
   I noticed a few of the old customers managed to pick up the earlier   
   versions (two so far) of the MP4 but someone got an error.   
   The server I'm using sometimes has some buffering problem whereby   
   when a file on the web page part of the disk space gets updated   
   the server doesn't see it for some hours and maybe reports "file not found"   
   or similar. Sometimes you have to hit "refresh" a few times and the   
   server gets the message and re-reads the disk directory and gets the   
   contents right for a change.   
      
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