TASS Astronomical Reduction Pipeline

Michael Richmond
May 16, 2003
May 19, 2003
Mar 27, 2005

The Amateur Sky Survey (TASS) is a collaboration of amateur and professional astronomers who have built their own instruments to measure relatively bright stars (between magnitudes V = 7 and V = 13 or so). We are processing much of the raw data through a suite of software written specifically for this project. The suite contains several different packages, but we use the name TARP to describe the entire ensemble. You can remember this acronym as

The pieces which make up TARP are

You can find a detailed description of the steps by which raw images are gradually turned into a catalog of stars with proper positions and magnitudes in the pipeline documentation.

Yes, it is somewhat awkward that the same word "pipeline" may be used to describe both the high-level scripts, and the entire collection of all packages (as in "TARP"). Alas, I don't how to avoid this confusion. Please let me know if you do.


Official TARP releases

For future reference, we list here the combinations of packages which go into each of the official TARP releases.

TARP 1.3 (released in Mar 27, 2005)
TARP 1.2 (released in May 19, 2003)
TARP 1.1 (released in May 16, 2003)

TARP 1.0 (released in late April, 2003)


Last modified 3/27/2005 by MWR