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Chris Rau wrote:
<p>...I'm afraid "per observation" <i>is</i> more realistic. Sorry
Paul.
<p>V2, V2.1 or Vwhenhellfreezesover... its your call.
<p>Chris
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<pre>Chris Todd wrote:</pre>
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<blockquote TYPE=CITE>I wasn't the original requestor, but I would appreciate
being able to
<br>set transparency/seeing settings per observation as well. I have
had
<br>frequent occasions where clouds moved in, or the sky became hazier,
<br>over the course of an observing session. Like Gary, I have usually
<br>just included this in the notes, but then printing out observations
<br>(e.g., for submission to Astronomical League) leads to inaccurate
<br>values.
<p>Not sure this needs to be in V2, though, this sounds like it could
<br>easily go in V2.1 if it's anything other than quick and easy to
<br>implement. Just my opinion.
<p>Chris Todd
<p>On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Paul Rodman<paul@ilanga.com> wrote:
<br>> Folks,
<br>>
<br>> A user has requested that the Seeing/Transparency be per observation*
rather
<br>> than per session, his argument being that those values change over
the
<br>> period of an observing session. Does anyone else have strong feelings
about
<br>> this either way?
<br>>
<br>> As I see it (sic):
<br>>
<br>> a. Per session: less hassle, but not so fine grained. If the seeing
(say)
<br>> changed from bad to good over the period of the session, it might
not be
<br>> clear as to why an observation was or wasn't successful.
<br>>
<br>> b. Per observation: more hassle (although the default would be to
make the
<br>> value the same as for the last observation in the session). Session
could
<br>> display range of seeing/transparency based on its included observations.
<br>>
<br>> Paul R.
<br>>
<br>> * per resource-combination within an observation might be pushing
it.
<br>>
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