[APBeta] Observation attempted but not found

[Craig Starnes]

I created a rating  (0 or -1...I forget) that is "Not Found".

I can then easily filter on that to create a list of objects that I didn't 
find or were to faint to be visible the first time around.

Craig


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> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 13:22:23 -0700
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> On Jul 6, 2009, at 9:28 AM, Paul Rodman wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.).
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> However, an observation is still an observation (whether the object
> was "observed" or not). Hence, the number of observations remains the
> same.
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> Perhaps we can debate changing "Observed" to "Detected", "Seen", etc.
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> Paul R.
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