[APBeta] Seeing/Transparency

[Paul Rodman]

Well, it would be much easier at this stage just to add the option to  
copy over all the user field values from the previous observation in  
the session when a new observation is added. This, it would seem,  
resolves most of your problem/s.

The seeing/transparency per observation change is nasty enough to  
warrant waiting for V2.1.

Paul R.

On Aug 7, 2009, at 2:22 PM, V.A. van Wulfen wrote:

> I'm the requester. I logged over 5000 observations in AP already and  
> I more than ever feel the need to log many details, both of the  
> object and the environmentals.
> My reasoning is that values such as seeing, transparency and SQM  
> (sky quality, a measurement for darkness) are of great importance to  
> an observation. Seeing and transparency change during an observing  
> session. So does SQM, to an even greater extent. My Unihedron Sky  
> Quality Meter also measures temperature, which I also log (although  
> not directly of influence to an objects visibility). These variables  
> together create a database I find more than a little useful. Thanks  
> to AP and these logged values I can instantly recall the conditions  
> under which an object was visible. To me it’s invaluable.
> While a general value for seeing, transparency and SQM is acceptable  
> for a session I definitely won’t stop to log these details  
> separately for an observed object. Currently AP allows plenty of  
> user fields to be added to an observation, so the option is there.  
> However, these values are not repeated for the next observations  
> logged in a session, requiring them to be entered manually again and  
> again. It would have my great preference to see AP have the option  
> to fill in a value for a user field which would then be duplicated  
> for the next observation (of a different object), until the value  
> changes, after which the new value will be used for subsequent  
> observations. Actually, I could live without fields for seeing &  
> transparency for the session, as I could enter this in a brief  
> description of the session itself.
>
> In the field I have often noticed seeing is different for different  
> parts of the sky. Hence my desire to enter different values during a  
> session. Same goes for transparency, light pollution or Lunar  
> interference. What about winds that shake your scope early in the  
> session but die down later at night, allowing stable views and  
> easier split double stars?
> All of that and a new SQM reading roughly every fifteen minutes.  
> That’s why I put in the request.

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