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Re: Map issue with software
Hello, Some parts of what you observed is indeed a feature but other bits are not. Once an event is selected in the list, OW will make a call to get the list of stations. This will take between 100 or so milliseconds to potentially a second or more, depending on where you are in the world. The server is located in Germany. So if you try to open up the map too quickly (before OW has received the info about the stations back from the server) then it will show only the path and there will be no option for you to announce a station and no stations will be displayed. This is a deficiency in the current implementation and I can look at how to improve the user experience with it. However if you just wait for the markers to appear inside OW before opening the online map, you will never suffer from this problem. The second part about hiding stations when zooming in however is an important feature. There are 3 types of privacy settings a user can submit their station with: Exact Location, Exact Chord (no location) and Inexact Chord (1km privacy). When users submit a station they choose which option should be used when their position is shared with others. For the purpose of collaborating on observing events, the only important piece of information is the chord location relative to the other observers and this is also given in OW's main plot with somewhat small resolution of course. For some well observed events however where observers are traveling to a mobile site the GoogleMap will likely be used a lot for planning. For historical reasons I kept showing the locations of the sites at low zoom levels, even that only the chords were important, as some people also like this option. It is however also a very important question of how personal privacy is applied, which the user submitting the station will choose. The Exact Location option will have the station cursor be present in all zoom levels on GoogleMaps and other observers will be able to zoom-in and see exactly where the location of the station is. This is what the user submitting the station chose. The Exact Chord (no location) option will only show the station cursor (with factored in random misplacement) on wider maps - small zoom level, but will hide the cursor of the location when you zoom in. Lastly the Inexact Chord (1km privacy) option will never show the location of the station at any zoom levels. Generally speaking there should be no reason to go and check the exact location of other's stations on the GoogleMaps for planning purposes, but this location will be displayed for people that have decided to share their exact location. For the other options I have made sure that the exact location is kept private. When planning your mobile station on the GoogleMaps plot, just pay attention to the nearby chords. Chords shown in orange colour are either inexact (to 1 km) or have been submitted with low or inexperienced 'Count on me' indicator, so make sure to pay attention to the nearby chord colours as well when choosing your mobile spot and deciding the best station spacing for an event. The privacy settings for a station are submitted and applied per station not per account i.e. one observer can choose different privacy settings for every event/station they submit. Cheers, Hristo.
On Wednesday, January 6, 2021, 11:34:55 AM GMT+2, vastronomy@... <vastronomy@...> wrote:
I've (probably others too) noticed something on the google maps display that "isn't" a feature LOL
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when i pan and zoom, sometimes the observer markers disappear.?
it happened on the? (11) Parthenope event.
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when I open the event, sometimes it doesn't show any observers, sometimes 4, including myself. if I pan and zoom in, the observers disappear and I have to zoom out to the 200km level to see them again. other times, i open the map and no observers show up.
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my default browser?is Chrome, if that?helps.
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Map issue with software
I've (probably others too) noticed something on the google maps display that "isn't" a feature LOL
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when i pan and zoom, sometimes the observer markers disappear.?
it happened on the? (11) Parthenope event.
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when I open the event, sometimes it doesn't show any observers, sometimes 4, including myself. if I pan and zoom in, the observers disappear and I have to zoom out to the 200km level to see them again. other times, i open the map and no observers show up.
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my default browser?is Chrome, if that?helps. |
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Re: Update problem
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýSo i went on the web site and downloaded OWupdate. I deleted the
existing OW, and ran the update. Tim On 20/12/2020 21:10, Tim Haymes via
groups.io wrote:
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Re: Update problem
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýHi Hristo. Cheers Tim On 20/12/2020 19:19, hristo_dpavlov via
groups.io wrote:
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Re: Update problem
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýHello Tim, ? I updated yesterday , no problems. Try to start your device new, sometimes something blocks from the old version........ ? Eberhard ? ? ? -----Original-Nachricht----- Betreff: [OccultWatcher] Update problem Datum: 2020-12-20T19:50:23+0100 Von: "Tim Haymes via groups.io" <tvh.observatory@...> An: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> ? ? ? Hi All, Ive just updated, and OW now doesn't start.? There is no error report or message. Suggestions please ? Tim |
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Re: Update problem
Hi Tim, I am wondering if you had a broken download. You can try the following to solve this particular problem: 1) Go to your OW install location (e.g. C:\OccultWatcher) 2) Delete OccultWatcher.exe 3) Right click OWUpdate.exe and choose "Run as administrator" 4) Wait for the install to finish and see if this has fixed your problem if it hasn't then please gather a DebugView log file: and sent it to me for investigation. Cheers, Hristo.
On Sunday, December 20, 2020, 8:50:12 PM GMT+2, Tim Haymes via groups.io <tvh.observatory@...> wrote:
Hi All, Ive just updated, and OW now doesn't start.? There is no error report or message. Suggestions please ? Tim |
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Re: [Planoccult] [OccultWatcher] Jovian Mutual Events 2021 now in OccultWatcher
TriAstro
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýHristo, ? When I did a search for events from my site in Occult4, it did not come up with any events visible from my home site until March, so it appears that there is nothing in the feed for me right now.? Thanks for clarifying. ? Tony George Scottsdale, AZ ? From: planoccult-bounces@... <planoccult-bounces@...> On Behalf Of Hristo Pavlov
Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2020 2:53 AM To: 'Planoccult' <planoccult@...>; [email protected]; 'IOTAOccultations' <[email protected]>; 'TTOA Group' <[email protected]>; 'UKoccultations' <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Planoccult] [OccultWatcher] Jovian Mutual Events 2021 now in OccultWatcher ? Hi Tony, ? The events in January are difficult as the Sun is too close and they are most likely filtered out for your location. Also OW only shows predictions for 60 days ahead so only events to 10 Feb would be currently shown as of Today. ? Event should start to appear slowly as the time goes. ? If you identify an event that should be listed in OW for you but it is not, please let me know. You can use Occult to find events and also use it to filter the events visible from a location. ? ? Hristo. ? ? ? ? On Saturday, December 12, 2020, 3:28:29 AM GMT+2, TriAstro <triastro@...> wrote: ? ? Hristo, ? Thanks for supporting the Planet Satellite (Global) event feed.? This is an important feed for capturing the mutual Jupiter events upcoming in 2021.? I updated OccultWatcher to the new version.? I had Planet Satellites (Global) feed already checked.? I did a Synchronize on the feed, which completed normally.? No planet satellite events appeared in the feed, even through February 9th, 2021.? I then purged the database and then synchronized again. ?Still no satellite events showed up.? FYI. ? Tony George Scottsdale, AZ ? From: planoccult-bounces@... <planoccult-bounces@...> On Behalf Of Hristo Pavlov ? Hi All, ? I have released an update to OW today in order to add support for the new season of the Jovian satellites mutual events. ? Please update your OW and then subscribe to the 'Planet Satellites (Global)' feed. ? There are no mutual events until the end of 2020. ? The events in January 2020 will be somewhat difficult to observe as Jupiter is close to the Sun, but events will become better in the following months. ? ? Regards, Hristo Pavlov. ? ? P.S. Don't forget to see the impressive of Jupiter and Saturn on Dec 21 Links in the message (1)
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Re: [Planoccult] Jovian Mutual Events 2021 now in OccultWatcher
Hi Tony, The events in January are difficult as the Sun is too close and they are most likely filtered out for your location. Also OW only shows predictions for 60 days ahead so only events to 10 Feb would be currently shown as of Today. Event should start to appear slowly as the time goes. If you identify an event that should be listed in OW for you but it is not, please let me know. You can use Occult to find events and also use it to filter the events visible from a location. Hristo.
On Saturday, December 12, 2020, 3:28:29 AM GMT+2, TriAstro <triastro@...> wrote:
Hristo, ? Thanks for supporting the Planet Satellite (Global) event feed.? This is an important feed for capturing the mutual Jupiter events upcoming in 2021.? I updated OccultWatcher to the new version.? I had Planet Satellites (Global) feed already checked.? I did a Synchronize on the feed, which completed normally.? No planet satellite events appeared in the feed, even through February 9th, 2021.? I then purged the database and then synchronized again. ?Still no satellite events showed up.? FYI. ? Tony George Scottsdale, AZ ? From: planoccult-bounces@... <planoccult-bounces@...> On Behalf Of Hristo Pavlov
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2020 3:39 PM To: [email protected]; IOTAOccultations <[email protected]>; TTOA Group <[email protected]>; Planoccult LISTSERVER <planoccult@...>; UKoccultations <[email protected]> Subject: [Planoccult] Jovian Mutual Events 2021 now in OccultWatcher ? Hi All, ? I have released an update to OW today in order to add support for the new season of the Jovian satellites mutual events. ? Please update your OW and then subscribe to the 'Planet Satellites (Global)' feed. ? There are no mutual events until the end of 2020. ? The events in January 2020 will be somewhat difficult to observe as Jupiter is close to the Sun, but events will become better in the following months. ? ? Regards, Hristo Pavlov. ? ? P.S. Don't forget to see the impressive of Jupiter and Saturn on Dec 21 Links in the message (1)
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Re: [Planoccult] Jovian Mutual Events 2021 now in OccultWatcher
TriAstro
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýHristo, ? Thanks for supporting the Planet Satellite (Global) event feed.? This is an important feed for capturing the mutual Jupiter events upcoming in 2021.? I updated OccultWatcher to the new version.? I had Planet Satellites (Global) feed already checked.? I did a Synchronize on the feed, which completed normally.? No planet satellite events appeared in the feed, even through February 9th, 2021.? I then purged the database and then synchronized again. ?Still no satellite events showed up.? FYI. ? Tony George Scottsdale, AZ ? From: planoccult-bounces@... <planoccult-bounces@...> On Behalf Of Hristo Pavlov
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2020 3:39 PM To: [email protected]; IOTAOccultations <[email protected]>; TTOA Group <[email protected]>; Planoccult LISTSERVER <planoccult@...>; UKoccultations <[email protected]> Subject: [Planoccult] Jovian Mutual Events 2021 now in OccultWatcher ? Hi All, ? I have released an update to OW today in order to add support for the new season of the Jovian satellites mutual events. ? Please update your OW and then subscribe to the 'Planet Satellites (Global)' feed. ? There are no mutual events until the end of 2020. ? The events in January 2020 will be somewhat difficult to observe as Jupiter is close to the Sun, but events will become better in the following months. ? ? Regards, Hristo Pavlov. ? ? P.S. Don't forget to see the impressive of Jupiter and Saturn on Dec 21 Links in the message (1)
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Jovian Mutual Events 2021 now in OccultWatcher
Hi All, I have released an update to OW today in order to add support for the new season of the Jovian satellites mutual events. Please update your OW and then subscribe to the 'Planet Satellites (Global)' feed. There are no mutual events until the end of 2020. The events in January 2020 will be somewhat difficult to observe as Jupiter is close to the Sun, but events will become better in the following months. Regards, Hristo Pavlov. P.S. Don't forget to see the impressive of Jupiter and Saturn on Dec 21 Links in the message (1) |
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Re: OW never end syncronise
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýHi Hristo,Correction to my last message. The debugger indicated some type of errors, sorry, as I am not familiar with the terminology and the use of the debugger, I preferred to disable all non-essential predictions feed to me. Either way, now the question is: Are there prediction feeds that are not operational or that can produce errors? Kind regards Joan El 07/12/2020 a las 22:07,
hristo_dpavlov via groups.io escribi¨®:
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Re: OW never end syncronise
Hi Joan, For the benefit of everyone can you please provide some more information about this - either to me only or share it with the group. None of the Rio TNO, Lucky Star or Rio Satellites feeds should have 'bad' events. Regards, Hristo.
On Monday, December 7, 2020, 10:46:47 PM GMT+2, Joan Genebriera <pleiades@...> wrote:
Hi
Hristo,
The problem is solved! Doing your indications and running the debugger I found some incomplete "bad" events from the Prediction feeds. Next action was to deselect the following events: Rio TNO, Lucky star, Rio satellites, Planet satellites. Click on OW advanced options ---> maintenance----> purge database-----> synchronize again and MAGIC!? all is working fine. Thank you for your help Hristo, Kind regards Joan Genebriera El 03/12/2020 a las 16:01,
hristo_dpavlov via groups.io escribi¨®:
This may be caused by a 'bad'
event from one of the feeds or a bad feed.
Please run through this and
send me the Debug View logs file:
Hristo.
On Thursday, December 3, 2020, 4:57:32 PM GMT+2, Joan
Genebriera <pleiades@...> wrote:
Hi Hristo, Deselecting Planet Satellites my last feed is now IBEROC but unfortunately the problem continues, synchronize never ends. What could I
do?? Thank you Joan
El
02/12/2020 a las 17:44, hristo_dpavlov via groups.io
escribi¨®:
If by 'Planet' you refer to the Planet
Satellites then this may be the problem.
There are currently no events shared in
this feed and this may be causing the problem. Try
deselecting it and synchronizing again.
Let me know if this helps.
Hristo.
On Wednesday, December 2, 2020, 11:35:54 AM
GMT+2, Joan Genebriera <pleiades@...>
wrote:
Hello
All,
I have an issue with the OW. The "Syncronise now" function never ends, and it means that it will try to syncronise three or four hours without finish! The software start normally and seems to download the options selected in the Prediction feeds: IOTA, Priority Events, Planned, Rio, Lucky, IBEROC, Planet, etc., and when it gets to the last one, it stops for ever!.? and becomes "nailed"? The following installation instructions have been done...
OW has been installed/de-installed without positive results. The computer's OS is WIN 7 pro and the the OW version 4.7.2 Any one has an idea of how to fix it?? Thank you. Joan Genebriera |
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Re: OW never end syncronise
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýHi Hristo,The problem is solved! Doing your indications and running the debugger I found some incomplete "bad" events from the Prediction feeds. Next action was to deselect the following events: Rio TNO, Lucky star, Rio satellites, Planet satellites. Click on OW advanced options ---> maintenance----> purge database-----> synchronize again and MAGIC!? all is working fine. Thank you for your help Hristo, Kind regards Joan Genebriera El 03/12/2020 a las 16:01,
hristo_dpavlov via groups.io escribi¨®:
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Re: Arrows showing direction of shadow movement
Hi Ted, I confirm that the arrows are missing and this wasn't intended. If you have a GitHub log-in can you please raise this issue on If you don't have a log-in let me know and I will raise it. Cheers, Hristo.
On Friday, December 4, 2020, 12:01:11 PM GMT+2, Ted Blank <tedblank@...> wrote:
In the past I remember that on the green center line track there were small arrowheads showing the direction of movement of the asteroid shadow.? I don't see them anymore.? I was just wondering if it would be possible to bring them back?? Or perhaps I am just missing them somehow.? They were very small, but useful. Ted B. |
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Arrows showing direction of shadow movement
In the past I remember that on the green center line track there were small arrowheads showing the direction of movement of the asteroid shadow.? I don't see them anymore.? I was just wondering if it would be possible to bring them back?? Or perhaps I am just missing them somehow.? They were very small, but useful. Ted B. |
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Re: OW never end syncronise
This may be caused by a 'bad' event from one of the feeds or a bad feed. Please run through this and send me the Debug View logs file: Hristo.
On Thursday, December 3, 2020, 4:57:32 PM GMT+2, Joan Genebriera <pleiades@...> wrote:
Hi Hristo, Deselecting Planet Satellites my last feed is now IBEROC but unfortunately the problem continues, synchronize never ends. What could I do?? Thank you Joan
El 02/12/2020 a las 17:44,
hristo_dpavlov via groups.io escribi¨®:
If by 'Planet' you refer to
the Planet Satellites then this may be the problem.
There are currently no events
shared in this feed and this may be causing the problem. Try
deselecting it and synchronizing again.
Let me know if this helps.
Hristo.
On Wednesday, December 2, 2020, 11:35:54 AM GMT+2, Joan
Genebriera <pleiades@...> wrote:
Hello All,
I have an issue with the OW. The "Syncronise now" function never ends, and it means that it will try to syncronise three or four hours without finish! The software start normally and seems to download the options selected in the Prediction feeds: IOTA, Priority Events, Planned, Rio, Lucky, IBEROC, Planet, etc., and when it gets to the last one, it stops for ever!.? and becomes "nailed"? The following installation instructions have been done...
OW has been installed/de-installed without positive results. The computer's OS is WIN 7 pro and the the OW version 4.7.2 Any one has an idea of how to fix it?? Thank you. Joan Genebriera |
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Re: OW never end syncronise
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýHi Hristo, Deselecting Planet Satellites my last feed is now IBEROC but unfortunately the problem continues, synchronize never ends. What could I do?? Thank you Joan
El 02/12/2020 a las 17:44,
hristo_dpavlov via groups.io escribi¨®:
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Re: [Planoccult] Occult wacher problem
Hi Jordi, Looks like there is a problem in a previously synchronized event. Run the following command from command line to purge the database. OccultWatcher.exe -purge This should fix it. Regards, Hristo.
On Thursday, December 3, 2020, 1:38:32 PM GMT+2, Jordi Marco Ricos <jordi_jmr@...> wrote:
Hi,
From today is not possible to run OW for me.?
apeared this message and close Ow:
?I'd deleted OW forder & install OW again, but problem remain.
any idea?
Thx
Jordi
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