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Hello,


It could be interesting to organize an observational support to the Teide Teams during the 4 months of the mission. Of course in case of needing, bad weather, technical problems preventing IAC80 observations but also, and it is a very important, for checking data and reliability for different instruments.
A mailing list of amateurs or pros who are able to turn their scopes quickly, gathering data and reduced it during the night should be build. On a simple demand by the IAC team or the PI should conduct to such support.
 Must Be Reactive IAC Ground support Team (MBRIGHT !) for the 4 months and possibly for extended mission during X rays observations.
During the Del Sco mission we really appreciated such support by amateurs and pros (CFHT, MacDonald obs and  Cerro T Chili Telescope). It was useful for determining precise date of inversion of Del Sco radial velocity and confirmed the reliability of the data gathered at IAC.


We have have time for such thing, but i encourage all amateurs to go to the real sky with their own setup, gathering, reducing spectra spectra to build such a list.


Thierry

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Thierry Garrel
Observatoire de Fontcaude, Montpellier, France
SpectroBlog http://gabalou.canalblog.com/