From: Doug Hamilton [hamilton@astro.umd.edu]
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 3:30 PM
To: Mitch Gordon
Subject: RE: WHT Peer review



Dear Mitch,

Here, at last, is my long delayed review of the WHT E-ring data set submitted 
to the PDS. It looks to be in very good shape; the observers and the PDS have 
taken great care to keep things neat and organized. Everything that I looked 
for is there, from a description of the instrument and telescope to the 
production details of the calibrated data. I found the mission objectives to 
be particularly useful; putting myself in the place of an interested scientist 
20 years from now, one of the first things I might want to know is what the 
observer was looking for.

I went though all of the raw, calibrated, and gif images using the Linux 
program "xv" to display the data. I also scanned all of the text files to get 
an overview of what comprises the data set. Everything appears to be in order. 
Below I have collected miscellaneous comments, all of them minor, that could 
be addressed. None of them should require much effort.

Again, apologies on the tardiness of this review.

Cheers,
Doug



DIRECTORY: /MAINRING/CALIMAGE  

These files, created on Dec 3 2003, don't seem to be part of the data set. 
Should they be removed?

cim-grep
mr-ci-list
mr-ci-list~

DIRECTORY: /E_RING/CALISIS

I was not able to display these images:

F161237C.IMG			
F161238C.IMG										
F161245C.IMG										
F161246C.IMG										

DIRECTORY:  /CALIB/API

These images below can be displayed, but they appear garbled. Can the observer 
comment on what has happened here?

F161074R.IMG									
F161076R.IMG										
F161077R.IMG										



SPELLING ERRORS:

CATALOG/APIINST.CAT   occuppied -> occupied					
CATALOG/DATASET.CAT   substraction ->  subtraction				
DOCUMENT/OBS_LOG.TXT  seening -> seeing				
DOCUMENT/OBS_LOG.TXT  substraction ->  subtraction 			
DOCUMENT/FITSINFO.ASC								
  exampleof
  valuesmay
  anticipatedthat
  Animportant

Why is the "Title:" field in CATALOG/DATASET.CAT "Unknown" for the WHT 		lost forever
proposal? Can this be tracked down?