[BAA Comets] Comets-disc Digest, Vol 73, Issue 2

Tue Jun 26 15:29:06 BST 2018

Thanks for reporting this issue David.

There seems to be a bug in the Comet Observing Planner. I also get an error
message for my site at 55N saying the Sun is up when it is not. We’ll check
it out.

Johan Warell
COBS Assistant Administrator

tis 26 juni 2018 kl. 12:55 skrev <comets-disc-request at lists.britastro.org>:

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> Hello,
>
> I've registered with COBS.si, partly because - in his Tale article - Peter
> said that he finds it very useful. I'm having some trouble with the Comet
> Observing Planner - I'm getting Python script error messages. And it says
> the sun is above the horizon at 2300? Whether UT or BST this is not right!
>
> Is there a little quirk that I don't know about? In what units should you
> enter the session time?
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> Thanks,
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> David Swan
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> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 20:25:38 +0100
> From: "Peter Carson" <petercarson100 at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [BAA Comets] cobs.si
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> Hi David,
> I'm pleased someone has read my piece in the Comet's Tale!
> You have to log into the COBS before you can use the Comet Observing
> Planner, otherwise the site doesn't know where you are in the world.
> The session start units are YYYY/MM/DD hh:mm and the session length is in
> whole hours.
> It works OK for me unless I enter a start time of 00:00hrs to 00:59hrs
> then
> I get the Python script error message.
> Limiting mag and min altitude are in whole numbers. I don't use the min
> Solar and Lunar Elongation.
> Hope you get it working and find it useful.
> Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Swan
> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2018 7:31 PM
> To: comets-disc at lists.britastro.org
> Subject: [BAA Comets] cobs.si
>
> Hello,
>
> I've registered with COBS.si, partly because - in his Tale article - Peter
> said that he finds it very useful. I'm having some trouble with the Comet
> Observing Planner - I'm getting Python script error messages. And it says
> the sun is above the horizon at 2300? Whether UT or BST this is not right!
>
> Is there a little quirk that I don't know about? In what units should you
> enter the session time?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David Swan
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> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 20:05:07 +0000
> From: David Swan <djswanastro at outlook.com>
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> Subject: Re: [BAA Comets] cobs.si
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> Thanks Peter, I've got it working. It can't cope with my latitude  + being
> so close to the summer solstice. It does not find any span of true night -
> that seems to be the problem. If I plug in a date in mid July everything
> works :) Anyhow, I really like the output. I can sort by magnitude and then
> can glance across at host constellations! David
>
>
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> Peter Carson <petercarson100 at gmail.com>
> Sent: 25 June 2018 12:25:38
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> Subject: Re: [BAA Comets] cobs.si
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> Hi David,
> I'm pleased someone has read my piece in the Comet's Tale!
> You have to log into the COBS before you can use the Comet Observing
> Planner, otherwise the site doesn't know where you are in the world.
> The session start units are YYYY/MM/DD hh:mm and the session length is in
> whole hours.
> It works OK for me unless I enter a start time of 00:00hrs to 00:59hrs then
> I get the Python script error message.
> Limiting mag and min altitude are in whole numbers. I don't use the min
> Solar and Lunar Elongation.
> Hope you get it working and find it useful.
> Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Swan
> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2018 7:31 PM
> To: comets-disc at lists.britastro.org
> Subject: [BAA Comets] cobs.si
>
> Hello,
>
> I've registered with COBS.si, partly because - in his Tale article - Peter
> said that he finds it very useful. I'm having some trouble with the Comet
> Observing Planner - I'm getting Python script error messages. And it says
> the sun is above the horizon at 2300? Whether UT or BST this is not right!
>
> Is there a little quirk that I don't know about? In what units should you
> enter the session time?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David Swan
>
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