At lunch Kilian Walsh (NYU), Foreman-Mackey, and I discussed construction of a mini-LSST pipeline that would work on all the data ever submitted to Astrometry.net. To start, we are going to try to extract information from a small set of images overlapping a small patch of sky. But the long-term plan is to get Astrometry.net to be basing its work not on the USNO-B1.0 catalog but rather it's own catalog built from its own submitted data. Each incoming image will be calibrated with the current best information, and then used to adjust that information (based on discrepancies). And, of course, we want the system to make novel discoveries along the way.
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