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Old 15-07-2013, 08:39 PM
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Thanks David,
Yes, I do have the size of the object in arcs per minute, this on the targets or objects page. As well as, of course Type (e.g. Galaxy), Class (e.g. Sba), R.A, Dec, other names, Distance. Separation if double or multiple stars, these field will enable themselves automatically depending what the object is, Constellation etc. I have also added features such as Altitude of the target or object at time of imaging, if the Moon was present, its phase, it's altitude and distance from the target. I have really tried to allow for a lot of variables which can be turned on or off in the options menu if you do not want to use them. This includes different scales of seeing - Antoniadis, Pickering & Danjon. 3 Different Transparency Scales. The Borte Scale for the Site, Standard Wind Scales (as well as gusts). These will be available from pull down drop boxes, (trying to limit the amount you actually have to type in via the keyboard) Humidity, Dew Point, Transit Time of the target. Importing and exporting of images in various formats, this include conversion from one type to another, including Fits and its special header. And it will also store and play video for those who use web cams etc. I have based a lot of the imaging processing information on MaximDL and Photoshop but I will probably have to get a copy of Pixlinsight and have a look at this also to allow users to change to its processing info, which will mean another page of programming as I know a lot of people are using this now and I should allow for it. There also an extensive equipment list as far as scopes, camera, filters, focal modifications (Focal reduction & barlows) users can choose from or add there own if not in the list yet. The only thing I do not intend to do in this version is hardware operation of camera's and scopes etc. Maybe this will happen in a letter version.
I have spent a lot of time thinking of all the possible variables and adding them as best I can.
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