[Aavso-photometry] Entering airmass with MaximDL v5.03

[Yenal Ogmen]

I use Meade DSI Pro II. Therefore I use Meade Envisage for image
acquisition. I am not autoguiding. So, I think, at this case I will
omit submitting airmass to the AAVSO until I upgrade to a more advanced
setup.

Thank you all who replied.
 
Yenal Ögmen
Green Island Observatory (B34)
www.greenislandobservatory.com
Geçitkale
North Cyprus




----- Original Message ----
From: Jim Jones <nt7t at centurytel.net>
To: Yenal Ogmen <yenalogmen at yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 10:46:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Aavso-photometry] Entering airmass with MaximDL v5.03

Yenal

I may be guilty of jumping to conclusions.  I suspect that the ability of MaxIm V5 to calculate airmass depends on the ascom driver for your mount.  I am using a Gemini goto on a Losmandy mount.  MaxIm calculates airmass for this combination.  That may or may not be the case for your mount.

Jim

Jim Jones wrote:
> MaxIm ver 5.03 calculates the air mass and includes it in the fits header as AIRMASS...right after SITELAT and SITELONG.  V 4.xx didn't.   Of course that isn't getting it into the file that goes to AAVSO.
> It would be a straight forward but laborious undertaking to write a script to insert it into the AAVSO file.  You can use MaxIm's GetFitsKey method to retrieve the airmass from the header.
> 
> The best solution would probably be to go to the MaxIm list and ask Doug George to include  airmass in the AAVSO format.
> 
> Jim Jones
> 
> Yenal Ogmen wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I just want to know how can I enter airmass values for time series observations with Maxim DL v5.03. This software perfectly creates new format but does not ask for anything to calculate airmass. For a single observation, I can enter airmass into the file but this is not easy for time-series observations. What shall I do?
>> 
>> Thank you.
>> 
>>  Yenal Ögmen
>> Green Island Observatory (B34)
>> www.greenislandobservatory.com
>> Geçitkale
>> North Cyprus
>> 
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