scoping papers about technical work

While sitting in a freezing-cold car (not mine!), I pair-coded with (well really watched code being written by) Adrian Price-Whelan (Flatiron) on the SDSS-IV APOGEE visit sub-frames; the idea is to get higher time-resolution radial-velocity information. In the conversation while code was being hacked, we set scope for a couple of possible papers: In one, we could show that we measure short-period binary orbital parameters more precisely (and more accurately?) with finer time-resolution measurements. In another, we could show that we can measure asteroseismic modes across the red-giant branch. We don't have either result yet, so I am just dreaming. But it's related to the point that it is sometimes hard to publish technical contributions to astronomy.