[Aavso-photometry] [AAVSO-DIS] Airmass Planner web tool

[Michael Newberry]

Wolfgang,

Yes, I know---I hadn't yet gotten around to that. This morning I added a 
cookie for the second Airmass Planner (web tools #3) so now it will save 
your settings across sessions. I'll add cookies to the other tools in a 
while.

Michael

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wolfgang Renz" <w_renz at onlinehome.de>
To: "Michael Newberry" <mnewberry at mirametrics.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Aavso-photometry] [AAVSO-DIS] Airmass Planner web tool


> Hi
>
> Saving the most important info like Observing Site and Coordinates
> and the data in the SNR Calc in a cookie or elsewhere would be very
> helpful too. Having to enter everything everytime is very time consuming.
>
> Clear skies
> Wolfgang
>
> -- 
> Wolfgang Renz, Karlsruhe, Germany
> Rz.BAV = WRe.vsnet = RWG.AAVSO
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Newberry" <mnewberry at mirametrics.com>
> To: "Brian Skiff" <bas at lowell.edu>; <aavso-photometry at mira.aavso.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 4:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [Aavso-photometry] [AAVSO-DIS] Airmass Planner web tool
>
>
>> See below
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Brian Skiff" <bas at lowell.edu>
>> To: "James Bedient" <jbedient at gmail.com>; 
>> <aavso-discussion at mira.aavso.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 5:34 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AAVSO-DIS] Airmass Planner web tool
>>
>>>     Some suggestions for similar pages:
>> [...]
>>
>>> ---  try to minimize the number of little input windows, such that,
>>>     for instance, the RA/Dec can be cut-n-pasted from elsewhere
>>>     onto a single line (places such as SIMBAD, VizieR, the Goddard
>>>     SkyView utility etc allow this)
>>
>> The reason for all the little windows is to make the form less brittle. 
>> They
>> make it obvious what the format is, and this reduces the possible 
>> variations
>> in the format entered. In any case, I've been up against the same issue 
>> you
>> describe---many times, having to parse out time and position strings into
>> the pieces. I've added a second alternative for the airmass planner which
>> addresses this. Try option 3 on the webtools page at
>> http://www.mirametrics.com and see if that makes this aspect easier for 
>> you.
>>
>> Michael Newberry
>>
>>>
>>> ---  on Brian Casey's page:  it's "equinox" not "epoch";
>>>     and why default to eq 1950 rather than 2000?
>>>
>>> ---  make a nomogram plot showing airmass as a function of
>>>     hour-angle and Declination (i.e. use these sites only once!);
>>>     pretty soon you get a gestalt, so you know roughly that if you
>>>     want to start observing at 2 airmasses on the Equator (say),
>>>     that's about 3.5 hours east (at Arizona's latitude).
>>>
>>>
>>> \Brian
>
>