Re: Night Eagle Astro Edition power connection
Thank you for that information Jerry.? I hope the camera works out for you and you get many successful occultation observations.? ? ? Tony George Scottsdale, AZ ?
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From: Jeremy Royston <jroyston@...>
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2021 4:28 AM
To: Tony George <triastro@...>; [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Night Eagle Astro Edition power connection? Hello Tony,
??? Yesterday evening I started to revive my Night Eagle Astro camera, but spent a lot of time finding which plug and polarity were needed for the power supply. This isn't described in the tiny "manual" accompanying the camera, or in your very good article, see the URL below.
For those who still have the camera the connection is a 5.5/2.1mm power plug, centre positive (Digikey PN CP3-002AH-ND). I've soldered it to a cut cable with USB type A plug. Especially in older cables the conductor colours aren't alway standardised. The red one is usually positive, I've seen black, blue or green as earth. Check with a voltmeter before you solder. http s://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/38542/identifying-usb-wires gives you more information
I can than use the camera in the field with a? 20 amp/hour USB power pack.
The other connectors are RCA/Cinch
Best wishes, Jerry
Article by Tony:
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Night Eagle Astro Edition power connection
Hello Tony,
??? Yesterday evening I started to revive my Night Eagle Astro
camera, but spent a lot of time finding which plug and polarity were
needed for the power supply. This isn't described in the tiny
"manual" accompanying the camera, or in your very good article, see
the URL below.
For those who still have the camera the connection is a 5.5/2.1mm
power plug, centre positive (Digikey P N CP3-002AH-ND).
I've soldered it to a cut cable with USB type A plug. Especially in
older cables the conductor colours aren't alway standardised. The
red one is usually positive, I've seen black, blue or green as
earth. Check with a voltmeter before you solder. http
s://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/38542/identifying-usb-wires
gives you more information
I can than use the camera in the field with a? 20 amp/hour USB power
pack.
The other connectors are RCA/Cinch
Best wishes, Jerry
Article by Tony:
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Re: "Ghost event" in new 5.0 version of OW
Hi Ted,
You have a submitted station for (33668)1999JO97 occulting UCAC4385116324 on 25 May. This is a personal prediction by Tony George.
If? you cannot see this event in MyEvents, do you see any other personal predictions in your MyEvents? Can you submit stations to new events, making them move to your MyEvents?
Has anyone else noticed a similar issue?
Hristo.
On Monday, May 24, 2021, 1:52:09 PM GMT+10, Ted Blank <tedblank@...> wrote:
Hi Hristo,
Yes, I restarted (full exit and restart) OW after the upgrade.
My account is an admin account, always has been.
There are a couple of other ghost events in the same situation for me, another one (I think) is?(33668)1999JO97.? I'm also getting emails about this one regarding Tony's change of sites, which I would not get if I wasn't signed up for it.
Thanks,
Ted
On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 7:51 PM hristo_dpavlov via <hristo_dpavlov= [email protected]> wrote: Hi Ted,
Just checking, did you restart OW immediately after the update has finished as per my email and are you logging in in Windows with a non-admin account?
I'll check tonight the status of that event and if the emails are sent because the server knows abiut the 'ghost' event but you cannot see it.
Hristo.
On Monday, May 24, 2021, 12:39:02 PM GMT+10, Ted Blank < tedblank@...> wrote:
Hi Hristo,
Yesterday I signed up for an event for Helwerthia?here in the Phoenix area.? It was visible in "My Events" at the top of the screen, as usual.
After updating to OW 5.0 today, that event (Helwerthia) is no longer visible in "My Events", however I am still getting emails from OW regarding others who signed up for it who add or cancel their sites.? So OW still thinks I am signed up for it, even though it is not being displayed.
I have stopped and restarted?OW, and purged my database.? Still no sign of the ghost event.
Thanks,
Ted B
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OW 5.0 - Comet Duplicates & how to fix them
Hi All,
It appears that if you had events from the Comet feed before you upgraded to OW 5.0, then after the upgrade many of the comet events would have been duplicated. Thanks for V for reporting this issue.
This appears to be because OW was unable to match the old comet events to the new events. This doesn't seem to be a problem with the asteroidal events.
In order to resolve the problem (remove the duplicates) if you have it, please do the following:
- Go to Configuration -> Prediction feeds - Select the 'Comet Occultations (Global)' feed, right click and choose "Purge database" - OW will restart - After the restart press the "Synchronise now" button to get the Comet predictions again.
Cheers,
Hristo.
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Re: Incoming Release of OccultWatcher 5.0
Hi V,
As per my previous email, I am able to reproduce the problem. Looks like events from the 4.7 Comet feed were not matched correctly by OW to the new events from the OWC comet feed and this has caused the duplication. Thanks again for reporting this.
I'll send a separate email explaining how to get rid of the duplicates.
Hristo.
On Tuesday, May 25, 2021, 11:00:20 AM GMT+10, V Sempronio <vastronomy@...> wrote:
In case the problem doesn't appear on your system, one different in the events is that if the event has already happened (in the past), it isn't duplicated.? I have my filter set for 5 days, for example. I hope this helps resolve the issue. Also, I recall that this happened before, but it went away on its own so I didn't remember to report it (I thought it was a "me" problem).
V
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Re: Incoming Release of OccultWatcher 5.0
In case the problem doesn't appear on your system, one different in the events is that if the event has already happened (in the past), it isn't duplicated.? I have my filter set for 5 days, for example. I hope this helps resolve the issue. Also, I recall that this happened before, but it went away on its own so I didn't remember to report it (I thought it was a "me" problem).
V
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Re: Incoming Release of OccultWatcher 5.0
Hi V,
In regards to the Comet duplicates - I can reproduce that, too. I also see some small differences between the duplications. So need to investigate this further and apply a fix either on the server or with an OW patch release. Many thanks for reporting this issue!
Hristo.
On Tuesday, May 25, 2021, 3:49:42 AM GMT+10, V Sempronio <vastronomy@...> wrote:
when I select the? Comets (global) feed, here is what populates on my OW list...
see attached.
as far as lunar events are concerned, i wanted the double star events.
V
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Re: Incoming Release of OccultWatcher 5.0
when I select the? Comets (global) feed, here is what populates on my OW list...
see attached.
as far as lunar events are concerned, i wanted the double star events.
V
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Re: "Ghost event" in new 5.0 version of OW
Hi Hristo,
Yes, I restarted (full exit and restart) OW after the upgrade.
My account is an admin account, always has been.
There are a couple of other ghost events in the same situation for me, another one (I think) is?(33668)1999JO97.? I'm also getting emails about this one regarding Tony's change of sites, which I would not get if I wasn't signed up for it.
Thanks,
Ted
On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 7:51 PM hristo_dpavlov via <hristo_dpavlov= [email protected]> wrote: Hi Ted,
Just checking, did you restart OW immediately after the update has finished as per my email and are you logging in in Windows with a non-admin account?
I'll check tonight the status of that event and if the emails are sent because the server knows abiut the 'ghost' event but you cannot see it.
Hristo.
On Monday, May 24, 2021, 12:39:02 PM GMT+10, Ted Blank < tedblank@...> wrote:
Hi Hristo,
Yesterday I signed up for an event for Helwerthia?here in the Phoenix area.? It was visible in "My Events" at the top of the screen, as usual.
After updating to OW 5.0 today, that event (Helwerthia) is no longer visible in "My Events", however I am still getting emails from OW regarding others who signed up for it who add or cancel their sites.? So OW still thinks I am signed up for it, even though it is not being displayed.
I have stopped and restarted?OW, and purged my database.? Still no sign of the ghost event.
Thanks,
Ted B
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Re: "Ghost event" in new 5.0 version of OW
Hi Ted,
Just checking, did you restart OW immediately after the update has finished as per my email and are you logging in in Windows with a non-admin account?
I'll check tonight the status of that event and if the emails are sent because the server knows abiut the 'ghost' event but you cannot see it.
Hristo.
On Monday, May 24, 2021, 12:39:02 PM GMT+10, Ted Blank <tedblank@...> wrote:
Hi Hristo,
Yesterday I signed up for an event for Helwerthia?here in the Phoenix area.? It was visible in "My Events" at the top of the screen, as usual.
After updating to OW 5.0 today, that event (Helwerthia) is no longer visible in "My Events", however I am still getting emails from OW regarding others who signed up for it who add or cancel their sites.? So OW still thinks I am signed up for it, even though it is not being displayed.
I have stopped and restarted?OW, and purged my database.? Still no sign of the ghost event.
Thanks,
Ted B
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"Ghost event" in new 5.0 version of OW
Hi Hristo,
Yesterday I signed up for an event for Helwerthia?here in the Phoenix area.? It was visible in "My Events" at the top of the screen, as usual.
After updating to OW 5.0 today, that event (Helwerthia) is no longer visible in "My Events", however I am still getting emails from OW regarding others who signed up for it who add or cancel their sites.? So OW still thinks I am signed up for it, even though it is not being displayed.
I have stopped and restarted?OW, and purged my database.? Still no sign of the ghost event.
Thanks,
Ted B
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Re: Incoming Release of OccultWatcher 5.0
Hi,
Can you send more information about the duplicate comet predictions issue ideally with screenshots and specific events.
In regards to Lunar Occultations. These are no longer maintained in the US. Which lunar predictions do you have configured to receive?
Hristo.
On Monday, May 24, 2021, 04:32:09 AM GMT+10, V Sempronio <vastronomy@...> wrote:
i put this on the IOTA feed rather than here.
here it is again
I am getting double comet predictions. are there two feeds that are possibly providing the same data?
Also, not related to v5.0, but my Lunar Occultations feed never finishes the synchronization and no events ever appear.
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Re: Incoming Release of OccultWatcher 5.0
i put this on the IOTA feed rather than here.
here it is again
I am getting double comet predictions. are there two feeds that are possibly providing the same data?
Also, not related to v5.0, but my Lunar Occultations feed never finishes the synchronization and no events ever appear.
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Re: Incoming Release of OccultWatcher 5.0
Dear Hristo,
many thanks for the version of OW and OWC. Fantastic work!
About the preference for the next features:
I vote for feature AM-1 - Predictions for asteroid moons.
Cheers,
Oliver
Am 19.05.2021 um 10:16 schrieb
hristo_dpavlov via groups.io:
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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.
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Re: Occult Watcher 5.0 Released
Hristo, ? I installed OW 5.0 and now realize that you have kept everything as it was in the old OW.? Very good work.? Us old dogs don’t have to learn any (many) new tricks!? Thank you!? Thanks for all the work you put into OW and OWC. ? Tony George Scottsdale, AZ ?
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of hristo_dpavlov via groups.io
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2021 11:02 PM
To: Planoccult LISTSERVER <planoccult@...>; IOTAOccultations <[email protected]>; TTOA Group <[email protected]>; UKoccultations <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: [OccultWatcher] Occult Watcher 5.0 Released? Today I have released the new version of Occult Watcher which is a major update in regards to how feed events make it into OW and how they are managed by the Feed Maintainers. There is no change to the UI and user experience of how these events are managed by the observers in OW. One difference is that the online link to the events (new or updated) will point to a web page on the OccultWatcher Cloud system - Within the next few months I expect to start making small updates to OW user experience to take better advantage of the new OWC event tagging system, with something likely coming up next week - stay tuned! At the moment Feed Maintainers are (and have been for the past 2 months) keeping up to date two different locations of their feed events. One for the current (now old) version of OW 4.7 and the other one of the new version 5.0. There is a plan that they will stop posting events to the old location in about 2 months from now which gives you 2 months to upgrade to OW 5.0. If you haven't updated to OW 5.0 by then, you will not be receiving any new events in OW 4.7 once they stop posting events the old way. OW 5.0 events are also automatically updated by OWC and will be more recent than OW 4,7 events. All these are great reasons to upgrade to v5.0 very soon. After you have updated OccultWatcher please do the following: - Stop OW and then restart it. This is a workaround for an issue where wrong feed settings would have been loaded if you are logged in to windows with a non-admin account and you had to type admin password to complete the upgrade process. I will release a fix for this issue in the near future but for now a manual shut down and a restart of OW with your usual Windows account is required. - Make sure to press the Synchronise button to get the latest events from OWC. Because OWC automatically monitors for orbit updates and updates predictions, doing this will get you the latest predictions for recently updated orbits. If you are subscribed to the CometOcc feed this will make a huge difference as the OWC comet predictions will be using Horizon's orbits, while OW 4.7 Comet events will be using the less accurate MPC orbits. You will also notice that (apart from IOTA Occultations, which is still using the old style of fetching) all new feeds will synchronise much faster than before. This is only one of the improvements of moving the feeds to OWC. OW 5.0 has been beta tested for about 2 months but it is likely that small issues have been missed. If you see anything which doesn't seem right, please report it directly to me or to the OccultWatcher group.io group. Things to watch for are predictions that don't seem updated as well as wrong data being shown for a prediction in OW or the OWC link when you follow the web page for the event. I would like to thank all Feed Maintainers and all people who dedicated time to contribute to the OWC project and to help reaching this significant milestone!
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Occult Watcher 5.0 Released
Hi All,
Today I have released the new version of Occult Watcher which is a major update in regards to how feed events make it into OW and how they are managed by the Feed Maintainers. There is no change to the UI and user experience of how these events are managed by the observers in OW.
One difference is that the online link to the events (new or updated) will point to a web page on the OccultWatcher Cloud system -
Within the next few months I expect to start making small updates to OW user experience to take better advantage of the new OWC event tagging system, with something likely coming up next week - stay tuned!
At the moment Feed Maintainers are (and have been for the past 2 months) keeping up to date two different locations of their feed events. One for the current (now old) version of OW 4.7 and the other one of the new version 5.0.
There is a plan that they will stop posting events to the old location in about 2 months from now which gives you 2 months to upgrade to OW 5.0. If you haven't updated to OW 5.0 by then, you will not be receiving any new events in OW 4.7 once they stop posting events the old way. OW 5.0 events are also automatically updated by OWC and will be more recent than OW 4,7 events. All these are great reasons to upgrade to v5.0 very soon.
After you have updated OccultWatcher please do the following:
- Stop OW and then restart it. This is a workaround for an issue where wrong feed settings would have been loaded if you are logged in to windows with a non-admin account and you had to type admin password to complete the upgrade process. I will release a fix for this issue in the near future but for now a manual shut down and a restart of OW with your usual Windows account is required.
- Make sure to press the Synchronise button to get the latest events from OWC. Because OWC automatically monitors for orbit updates and updates predictions, doing this will get you the latest predictions for recently updated orbits. If you are subscribed to the CometOcc feed this will make a huge difference as the OWC comet predictions will be using Horizon's orbits, while OW 4.7 Comet events will be using the less accurate MPC orbits.
You will also notice that (apart from IOTA Occultations, which is still using the old style of fetching) all new feeds will synchronise much faster than before. This is only one of the improvements of moving the feeds to OWC.
OW 5.0 has been beta tested for about 2 months but it is likely that
small issues have been missed. If you see anything which doesn't seem
right, please report it directly to me or to the OccultWatcher group.io
group. Things to watch for are predictions that don't seem updated as
well as wrong data being shown for a prediction in OW or the OWC link
when you follow the web page for the event.
I would like to thank all Feed Maintainers and all people who dedicated time to contribute to the OWC project and to help reaching this significant milestone!
Best Regards, Hristo Pavlov
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Re: Incoming Release of OccultWatcher 5.0
Hi Tony,
There will be no UI difference between 4.7 and 5.0. The only difference is that most feeds will be fetched differently and event detail pages will point to OWC.
With the following updates of OW v5 I expect to start making UI changes but they will be additions and will work on an opt-in basis.
I *try* to keep everything backwards compatible but I will likely fail to do so in some occasions. OW 5.0 is fully backwards compatible as long as the user interaction is concerned.
Hristo.
On Thursday, May 20, 2021, 12:19:45 AM GMT+10, TriAstro <triastro@...> wrote:
Hristo, ? For those of us who have continued to use the old OW 4.7.0.7, when you transition to OW 5.0, specifically, what will be different from the old OW?? Will we see a different start screen/menu/submenus?? Will the old feeds be eliminated?? Will OW 4.7.0.7 be discontinued?? Will we have to reset all our site parameters?? For me, the ideal situation would be that the old screens/menus/submenus all stay the same in OW 5.0 and that any transition to OWC be transparent to the user, with all the old feeds being repopulated in OW 5.0 automatically. ? Thanks for all that you have done with OW. ? Best regards. ? Tony George Scottsdale, AZ ?
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of hristo_dpavlov via groups.io
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 1:16 AM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: [OccultWatcher] Incoming Release of OccultWatcher 5.0 ? 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.
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Re: [OWCloud] Incoming Release of OccultWatcher 5.0
I renamed the field to "Closest Approach" based on this term also being used in the Occelmnt file documentation, where this time ultimately comes from.
Do you think that this name is better and do you have other suggestions? I find "Ground Time" and "Track Time" less clear and "Time Range" is not possible as I cannot show a range in this place.
Hristo.
On Thursday, May 20, 2021, 10:06:27 AM GMT+10, Dave Gault <davegault@...> wrote:
Hi Hristo et al,
I think to give a time for an event that is not site specific (i.e coordinates) is misleading / confusing especially for newbies.
I was a newbie once and I missed my first occultation because i didn't understand the time-range and the necessity to read the time-scale off the map.
I think ground-time or track-time or time-range would be appropriate.?
-------- Original message -------- From: "hristo_dpavlov via groups.io" <hristo_dpavlov@...> Date: 19/05/2021 9:05 PM (GMT+10:00) To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Subject: Re: [OWCloud] Incoming Release of OccultWatcher 5.0 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. ? ? ? 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.
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Re: Incoming Release of OccultWatcher 5.0
Hristo, ? For those of us who have continued to use the old OW 4.7.0.7, when you transition to OW 5.0, specifically, what will be different from the old OW?? Will we see a different start screen/menu/submenus?? Will the old feeds be eliminated?? Will OW 4.7.0.7 be discontinued?? Will we have to reset all our site parameters?? For me, the ideal situation would be that the old screens/menus/submenus all stay the same in OW 5.0 and that any transition to OWC be transparent to the user, with all the old feeds being repopulated in OW 5.0 automatically. ? Thanks for all that you have done with OW. ? Best regards. ? Tony George Scottsdale, AZ ?
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of hristo_dpavlov via groups.io
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 1:16 AM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: [OccultWatcher] Incoming Release of OccultWatcher 5.0? 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.
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Re: [OWCloud] Incoming Release of OccultWatcher 5.0
> - Star charts not going to the actual star - this is unfortunately true. Appears that Aladin was unable to locate the star (UCAC4
0323-126197) and instead of showing an error message, it decided to go
> to coordinates (0, 0). I will see if I can do something about this on my
end. I have recorded this as an OWC bug, which I will look at a later
time:
It appears that Aladin now correctly opens a chart for this star. Looks like there has been an issue on their end.
Hristo.
On Wednesday, May 19, 2021, 8:33:01 PM GMT+10, hristo_dpavlov via groups.io <hristo_dpavlov@...> wrote:
Hi Dave,
Thanks for submitting your notes about this page.
- 13.5 is indeed the combined magnitude as reported by the Occelmnt file i.e. there is no error in the title. This is computed from the V magnitude of the star (13.59) and the magnitude of the asteroid (17.01)
- The magnitude listed as 12.45 for the star is the Red magnitude from
the Occelmnt file. Because our cameras are more sensitive in red in this
instance I thought that preferring to show the R magnitude over the V magnitude
(which is 13.6) would be more useful. I could update the title to read (R=12.45m) however in this instance I think I should change the magnitude to be the V magnitude (13.6 as you correctly pointed out) so it is consistent with the Combined magnitude which is displayed next to it and is based on the V magnitude.
- Event Date & Time - The general pages of OWC are not related to a specific site on the Earth so this time has a meaning of the time of the closest approach. You are correct that the full interval is from 17:50 to 18:16 UT and this is displayed to the bottom right under the Earth plot. I will try to think of a better title for the time. While I like 'Date & Time of Closest Approach' I think this is probably too long and the naming should be consistent across this page and the event search results page. Do you have a suggestion for a different title or a different 'fix' for this 'issue'?
- Star charts not going to the actual star - this is unfortunately true. Appears that Aladin was unable to locate the star ( UCAC4 0323-126197) and instead of showing an error message, it decided to go to coordinates (0, 0). I will see if I can do something about this on my end. I have recorded this as an OWC bug, which I will look at a later time:
Hristo.
On Wednesday, May 19, 2021, 7:25:05 PM GMT+10, Dave Gault <davegault@...> wrote:
Hi Hristo, ? This form need fixing too.? See… 
? Also the star charts are not going to the target star.? They are centered on 0 RA and 0 Dec. ? ?
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Sent: Wednesday, 19 May 2021 18:16
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Subject: [OWCloud] Incoming Release of OccultWatcher 5.0 ? 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.
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