<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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.<div><br></div><div>The seeing/transparency per observation change is nasty enough to warrant waiting for V2.1.<br><div><br></div><div>Paul R.</div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 7, 2009, at 2:22 PM, V.A. van Wulfen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Monaco; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="NL" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; ">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.</div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; "><span lang="EN-US">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; "><span lang="EN-US">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; "><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; "><span lang="EN-US">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?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; "><span lang="EN-US">All of that and a new SQM reading roughly every fifteen minutes. That’s why I put in the request.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>