Very on topic, Mark. Jeff Blanchard has a FileMaker hack that's a
fine observing database. He's developing it for shareware.
<jeffb@cruzio.com> It backs up to Steve Gottlieb's NGC+, so fills in
plenty of useful reliable info when you log a new object in. I like
it a lot.
Craig C. went -
>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.
Mileage varies, doesn't it? I use that info in retrospect all the
time, comparing observations of the same object on different nights,
esp when it looks real different than it did before! Happened just
this fall with a galaxy north of Scheat in Pegasus. 7457, that's the
guy. Esp useful too when looking at galaxy clusters, like the distant
sets in the Perseus-Pisces supercluster we were just talking about.
When I was studying the piles of galaxies in the Bowl of the Dipper
for the first time, they're all distant and little. The same eyepiece
field looked real different on two successive nights. One at Coe had
good seeing and fair transparency; next time out at Dino had real
good transparency and only fair seeing. Without knowing that I would
have been even more confused.
Rashad has been wild about the database he uses. SkyTools, is that right?
Oh, oh it's Friday night.
Good weekend, y'all.
DDK
-- Jamie Dillon <mavericks@redshift.com> <*> http://www.winepress.com/jd1.htm http://observers.org "If there's a hull breach I'm screwed." - Michael Garibaldi on Babylon 5Received on Fri Oct 29 23:58:58 2004