Re: [OWCloud] Incoming Release of OccultWatcher 5.0
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Hi Dave, Thanks for reporting all this. - Rank is indeed wrong or more correctly it was the rank of the original prediction before the event was tagged and a better prediction was uploaded/computed. However because of the nature of the search this form does, the Rank is actually correct but I fully understand that it is not what you expected to see. This kind of comes back to the usefulness of this particular form and I'll need to improve it. I don't think that this will happen before the release of OW 5.0 and I also don't think this issue is serious enough to stop the release of OW 5.0. Would you disagree with that statement? - Event Time - as per my other reply pages are not related to an observer's location and I am trying to make them show minimum text/data. I personally don't see an issue with the title 'Event Time' and the time that is displayed as this could possibly only mean one thing - what the value actually is. I am open for suggestions but at this point I don't think that this needs changing. There is also as separate problem with those search forms as a whole. I will need to build new forms better targeted to observers. Current forms are more for people looking at whether OWC is working correctly and require knowledge of how they work so showing 'inconvenient' event Date Time is better than showing no time at all, when showing a user specific time is not an option. Also on this form showing the full range is also not an option here, either, unless I modify what the form does or how fast it works. - I agree that showing Magnitude before Mag Drop is more 'natural' so I will do as you suggest with the next update of OWC, which typically happens silently i.e. I just update it without telling anyone, unless there is something cool to tell you about :) Thanks again! Hristo.
On Wednesday, May 19, 2021, 7:06:08 PM GMT+10, Dave Gault <davegault@...> wrote:
Hi Hristo, ? Rank is not showing correctly on the ¡®Search by Object¡¯ page. The event I¡¯m planned for tomorrow morning is Rank 100 but it¡¯s showing as Rank 2. ? ? Also1, unless you are planning to input site coordinates, the time display is misleading.? IMHO, the time the shadow is on the ground ¡®17:50 to 18:16 UT¡¯ should be displayed. ? Also2, IMHO, the order of columns should be (after Star ID) Star Mag. Mag.Drop and Max.Duration.? That¡¯s the order of importance. ? Regards DaveGault ? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of hristo_dpavlov via groups.io
Sent: Wednesday, 19 May 2021 18:16 To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [OWCloud] Incoming Release of OccultWatcher 5.0 ? Hi All, ? You may have noticed that I released an update to OWC where now the event search has been extended to also search for events involving comets. This is the visible change related to the migration of the Comets feed to OWC. ? With that now completed and with OWC and OW 5.0 having operated for many weeks I feel that it is time to push the public release of OW 5.0 ? If you think that there are still issues that need to be solved before the release please speak up. If I don't hear anything from you I will release OW 5.0 over the weekend. ? Some other important topics related to this release: ? - As OW 5.0 will be fetching a number of feeds from OWC while OW 4.x would be using the old style web sites, I suggest that to minimize the work of feed maintainers we announce a 2 month migration period and stop the release of data to the old feeds after that. This should give enough time for people to migrate. If I don't hear any discussion on this topic I will also make this announcement with the release of OW 5.0 ? - There are likely still some minor issues to be discovered but releasing a fix for them would be a small-risk operation for OW 5.0 and it happens without user impact for OWC. Therefore unless something bigger is reported I don't want to hold the release of OW 5.0 for minor issues. If bigger issues are discovered post release I will move quickly to resolve them. ? - As the first two major phases of OWC will be complete () I would like to focus on the next features. For this I would like to ask you to please vote for say 1 or 2 features if you have preferences. I may also update the phases page and make it possible for people to actually vote on the page by clicking a button, to make the process easier. I will try to get this released over the weekend, too. ? Let me know if you have any other comments / feedback. ? Cheers, Hristo. ? ? ? ? |