[APBeta] Observation attempted but not found

Paul Rodman paul at ilanga.com
Mon Jul 6 13:22:23 PDT 2009


On Jul 6, 2009, at 9:28 AM, Paul Rodman wrote:

>
> On Jul 6, 2009, at 6:54 AM, Paul Rodman wrote:
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>> Well, what I would probably do is add another column to the  
>> Telescope/Eyepiece/.../Rating list called "Observed" with a  
>> checkbox in it (initially ON). Thus you'd be able to record that an  
>> object was not observed with such-and-such a combination, but was  
>> observed with, say, a shorter FL eyepiece. That would be relatively  
>> easy to implement.
>>
>> What would be trickier would be to display # of observations to  
>> include only those that have at least one "observed" entry.
>>
>> Let me ponder this.

OK, this is now implemented (including highlighting and observation  
rules, scripting, etc.) as an Observed field in the resource  
combinations list. If one or more of those entries are marked as  
Observed, the the observation is considered "Observed" (i.e. you were  
able to see the object with at least one combination of telescope,  
eyepiece, etc.).

However, an observation is still an observation (whether the object  
was "observed" or not). Hence, the number of observations remains the  
same.

Perhaps we can debate changing "Observed" to "Detected", "Seen", etc.

Paul R.




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