The computer programs written so far are impressive in their quality. These are professional programmers writing for fun and to show what good work they can do. The code is amazing in the degree of documentation in the code and the detail of the operating instructions that go with it. This author once supervised 19 systems programmers with a combined salary of over a million dollars a year. This effort costs nothing and supervises itself.
Professionals use huge telescopes to study tiny areas of the sky.
The TASS collaboration uses tiny telescopes to study large areas of the sky. In a typical evening, a TASS telescope will view a million more times the area of the sky as seen in the widely distributed Hubble Deep Field galaxy picture. Over a year the 22 TASS telescopes should be able to accumulate 200 measurements on each of 100,000 stars. These telescopes are small enough to fit in one hand. They are little more than a camera lens fitted with a sensitive CCD detector.