[APBeta] Global observations script

[Chris Todd]

Well, it's probably something about my setup.  All these observations
were entered into AP 1.5 and 1.6 back in the day when I ran it on my
PC, then I got a MacBook and moved things over and ran into a few
issues doing that, then I ran into conversion issues from 1.6 to 2.
So I'm virtually certain that it's my data that's messed up.

So are you saying that, in your binocular observations, "None" is the
value of the ep field?

Chris

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Jeff Young <jey at adobe.com> wrote:
> Chris --
>
> Glad you found it useful.  It's loosely based on one Paul wrote several years ago.
>
> And thanks for the feedback; I've copied your fixes to my copy of the script.  Odd, though, that my binocular observations are different from yours....
>
> Cheers,
> -- Jeff
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net [mailto:apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net] On Behalf Of
>> Christopher Todd
>> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 3:49 AM
>> To: AstroPlanner Beta Testers <apbeta at lists.astroplanner.net>
>> Subject: Re: [APBeta] Global observations script
>>
>> Jeff,
>>
>> I discovered that my primary problem was that I must have screwed something
>> up when I ran the V1 to V2 converter, because my telescope resources did not
>> match up correctly to what was in the Observations database (I think I
>> manually re-created my telescope, Site, and eyepiece resources in V2).  So
>> when your script started querying for the properties of the scope and ep
>> objects in GetMagnification, it choked.
>>
>> The other thing I discovered is that for binocular observations (at least in
>> *my* observations database, YMMV), the ep field is not "None", but rather
>> it's empty/Nil, so when you query for the EyepieceResource.Get(epName), it
>> throws an Exception.  So I moved the lines
>>    ep = EyepieceResource.Get(epName)
>>    aid = VisualAidResource.Get(aidName)
>> Inside of the else block, like so:
>>    if scope.IsBinocular then
>>         mag = scope.Magnification
>>    else
>>         ep = EyepieceResource.Get(epName)
>>         aid = VisualAidResource.Get(aidName)
>>         mag = APResource.Magnification(scope, ep, aid)
>>    end if
>>
>> Then it worked just fine.  Cool script!  Thanks for writing it.
>>
>> Chris
>>