[APBeta] Seeing/Transparency

[Hilary Jones]

I'll vote for b.  But realistically it's not going to make a big difference 
to me either way.

Hilary

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Rodman" <paul at ilanga.com>
To: "AstroPlanner Beta Testers" <apbeta at lists.astroplanner.net>
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 10:29 AM
Subject: [APBeta] Seeing/Transparency


> 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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