I've been using SkyTools. I purchased it principally for the logging
capabilities. I like that I can create a list which excludes (or doesn't
exclude) objects that I've already seen. And it somewhat convenient to
create a log from the software I'm using while observing.
I don't like the fact that I have to use SkyTools' log browser to read the
logs. It would also be able to export the logs into an Excel spreadhseet.
Currently, it goes only to a text file.
Michelle Stone
Argo Navis and
Custom Telescopes by Plettstone
http://www.plettstone.com/telescopes
> -----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 4:41 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 Sat Oct 30 12:33:56 2004