🚀 go-pugleaf

In <mcdonald.1105.2D47DF4F@aries.scs.uiuc.edu>, mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald) writes:
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>I would designate a certain amount of telescope time ...  perhaps 0.5 or  
>1% ... as for "general interest subjects" which would be determined by
>three methods: one would be a simple popularity contest among astronomers,
>second would be one among the general public, and third would be my own
>whim, based on my felling of what's hot at the moment. I would take
>appropriate data on these objects and make them instantly public domain
>(as actual data, complete will all auxiliary data needed for their 
>analysis). This would include both images at various wavelengths 
>and spectra as well, with emphasis on the ultraviolet. 
>
>Doug McDonald

Sound like a good idea to me.

I think a few images of the comet/Jupiter collision should
definitely be on this list.  I think this would be preferable
to limiting all the images to a select few astronomers
when a great many other astronomers, other researchers,
as well as the general public have to wait a year for
the results. 

I realize GIF images of the collision will probably be
released shortly after the collision but these are 
not up to the quality of the original data.

The vast majority of the images of the collision 
should still be on restricted access for the standard 1 year
so the astronomers which have HST time get a reasonable
amount of time to publish.


Keith S Cover
Physics, UBC
keith@msmri.med.ubc.ca