I use Astroplanner for both my planning and logging. Great program.
It records a lot of details, but the ones most important to me seem to be
the following.
Location
Scope
eyepiece
filter
date/time
my observation
One thing it tracks that I religiously enter is the transparency and seeing
conditions. However I find I never look at this when looking back at my
logs. So I'm not sure why I bother.
-- Craig
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sf-bay-tac-bounces@seds.org [mailto:sf-bay-tac-bounces@seds.org]On
> Behalf Of Mark Bracewell
> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 3:41 PM
> To: The Astronomy Connection
> Subject: [TAC] Observing logs
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> During the cloudy evenings, I have been writing a bit of software
> to help me log observations, in expectation of that happy night
> when I'll be able to run my laptop off a battery. I'm interested
> to know if anyone out there uses observation logging software and
> if so what does it log that you depend on, what doesn't it log
> that you wish it did, what makes it useful, what makes it suck,
> etc... I want to get it right. I have it talking with my
> planetarium software (Cartes du Ciel) so it grabs all the stuff
> like coordinates of objects, date, time, geographical location
> etc., it calculates power, fov and so on for a given
> eyepiece/scope, and best for me it has a HUGE font so I can read
> it without reading glasses :) I'll donate it back to the Cartes
> du Ciel guy when it's done (who, BTW, did that nice image of the
> sun in the latest Coronado advert in S&T).
>
> Is this on topic? I'm pretty good at going off topic - side
> effect of having written web discussion software for years, it
> all looks tangential to me. If that's not OT, and the laptop
> doesn't tick folks off, I can always fall back on lighting a
> cigar, the ultimate social green laser :)
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Received on Fri Oct 29 17:37:57 2004