Guys this is just a little teaser to see how much interest there is in this little project.
It's an Astronomical Event Timer for those who have PC's in their observatories or take laptops into the field. Of course, it's only as accurate as your PC clock, but if you ensure it's synchronised before and after the session that shouldn't be too bad.
It will record UTC and local time for each event as well as elapsed time from the first event on the log.
There are two methods for measuring your personal equation: one for predictable events (i.e. that may be anticipated) such as the contact of a moon with the limb of a planet/moon/sun; and the other for unpredictable events that you must see before reacting (such as reappearance of a star).
The timing log and PE data can be saved to file for further editting and presentation with a wordprocessor of your choice (when I finish the code for that
). I'll also write a note file / web page explaining how to correctly apply the PE data to the timing data.
It's been another interesting little coding project if nothing else. Got the old grey matter swilling about again!
If people are interested I'll post a copy when I finish the file save routine.
Al.