[APBeta] Seeing/Transparency

[Chris Todd]

I wasn't the original requestor, but I would appreciate being able to
set transparency/seeing settings per observation as well.  I have had
frequent occasions where clouds moved in, or the sky became hazier,
over the course of an observing session.  Like Gary, I have usually
just included this in the notes, but then printing out observations
(e.g., for submission to Astronomical League) leads to inaccurate
values.

Not sure this needs to be in V2, though, this sounds like it could
easily go in V2.1 if it's anything other than quick and easy to
implement.  Just my opinion.

Chris Todd

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Paul Rodman<paul at ilanga.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> A user has requested that the Seeing/Transparency be per observation* rather
> than per session, his argument being that those values change over the
> period of an observing session. Does anyone else have strong feelings about
> this either way?
>
> As I see it (sic):
>
> a. Per session: less hassle, but not so fine grained. If the seeing (say)
> changed from bad to good over the period of the session, it might not be
> clear as to why an observation was or wasn't successful.
>
> b. Per observation: more hassle (although the default would be to make the
> value the same as for the last observation in the session). Session could
> display range of seeing/transparency based on its included observations.
>
> Paul R.
>
> * per resource-combination within an observation might be pushing it.
>
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