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Hi Denis – i can’t help with advice on a magnifying ‘screen’ – but windows has an accessibility toll caked Magnifier which can be used to magnify the screen and give a bigger ‘virtual’ screen. I have used ut but found it a bit coarse grained. The MacOS accessibility tool called Zoom i find is a lot better (one of the reasons I mainly use MacOS these days).
Whatever type of computer your friend uses it would be worth looking into the accessibility options for visually impaired.
I also find that a lot of astro programmes often have small controls with lots of options, which make them difficult to use for those with visual challenges.Callum
Hi Robin,
The forum default setting is to allow users to be able to edit their post for up to 5 minutes after posting.
This could be increased – but usually this is a short period for simple corrections, which you often realise shortly after posting.Callum
Hi Len – yes, we know – we were uploading the April Journal and a couple of things went awry.
It should (and the April Journal) be back before too long.Callum
Looking for a second telescope + mount for planetary and lunar viewing & astrophotography.
I’m not really a planetary imager, but it seems to me that SCT’s are probably still the most popular telescope for imaging planets.
The long focal length gives a good scale with the planetary cameras, and you’d probably looking at somewhere between 200mm to 300mm aperture.
And you also need a good mount, but you don’t need to guide so that makes things a bit simpler.Callum
A little while ago, during a meeting, our President made reference to an effort to in some way source some remote telescope time for members. My memory is vague but, as I recall it, he seemed to suggest that this would be a selling point in attracting new members.
Hi Grant,
I dont know the details but I understand the project is stalled because the software being developed/configured for the BAA was being done in Ukraine.
Callum
Lunar section circular archive is incomplete: There is a jump from 1973 to 2019 and 1972 is missing. Is this a work in progress?
Think this is fixed now – the page will now show 1000 items, but there may still be unlisted issues. Probably it would be better if the circulars were sorted in decade folders.
Callum
I am not sure if it is related to the website changes but I notice that you can no longer jump ahead to a specific time in the (non youtube) BAA videos by clicking on the progress bar so have to watch the whole video to get to the place you want. Particularly problematic here for example where the video is almost 3 hours long !
https://britastro.org/videos/isis-tutorialThanks for this spot Robin – we’ll look into it.
Callum
Paul,
the message number (at right of the post header) is a hyper-link – so you can copy paste that as a link. e.g. https://britastro.org/forums/topic/new-website-feedback/page/3#post-608399
We are looking at plugins for additional forum functionality.
Callum
Hi Jeremy,
>> Is it possible to have more posts on a single page? We are now on page 4 of this thread, so to get here, I click the relevant Forum thread on the front page, then need to click a second time to get to page 4 (that’s when I don’t get to page 3 when my large finger applied to my tiny iPhone hits 3 instead of 4).
>> Or the ability to go straight to the most recent post from the main page.
I’ve increased to 20 per page.
You can reach the last page by clicking on the time on the time in Last Post column of the topics table.
Callum
Hi Daryl, all…
It was held because it had 2 web links in the text.
I’ve increased the limit to allow 3 web links in a message, hopefully that will cover most instances.
Robin – I noticed your earlier messages in the pending queue – held for the same reason – at least that explains where they went.
Callum
Hi Daryl,
>> Attempt 2 and 3 on Denis’s thread and both vanished, so I asked if the Highlands Astronomical society would pass my message onto him. it appears the thread on GF Kellaway won’t accept any replies?
Both replies were “hidden” and needed to be approved – i’m not sure why that might be, but I approved both and the replies now appear.
Will try to work out why they needed approval.Callum
Hi all,
we are focussing on fixing things that are actually broken at the moment, but we will log and review all the feedback. Many thank for taking the time to comment.
Callum
Hi Alan,
>> So multiple choice searching for videos – can a video appear on more than one section by tags? Can we add tags or just the management team? For instance I came across Nick White’s very informative video about very close binary star observing and it was in the Meetings list but it should also be in the Equipment and Techniques list.
Yes, videos can be in multiple ‘sections’ – but just our YouTube admins can allocate those. I’ll ask one of them if this can be don for Nick’s video.
Any others please just contact the web-team.Callum
Hi Mark,
>> One comment: I feel the observing sections would be better as a fixed set of navigation images rather than a scrolling one. Don’t like to have wait to get the one I want.
yes, this is a bit of a problem on smaller screens – if you just click on where it says SECTIONS on the menu bar it will take you to a page with all the sections.
Callum
Hi Robin,
>> Can we have the “last post” button on the forum topics back please ?
not 100% sure what you mean – but you can get to the last post on a topic by clicking on the time in the head or the topic in the text ‘and was last updated 1 minute ago’ (i.e. 1 minute in this example)
The forum is all linear now – we’ll look into having quoted replies.
Callum
>> Has the shop been removed?
yes, there is a new shop coming along in the near future. If you want to buy anything just contact the office in the meantime.
Callumn
BTW – the Historical Section Newsletters are now in https://britastro.org/document_folder/baa-document-store/sections/historical-section/newsletters
Thanks,
Callum
