From ndj at nickdjames.com Sat Jun 9 07:57:58 2018 From: ndj at nickdjames.com (Nick James) Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2018 07:57:58 +0100 Subject: [BAA Comets] Comet's Tale Number 37 Message-ID: Thanks to the very hard work of our editor, Janice McClean, the latest issue of the Section's newsletter, issue 37, is available to download by following the links from here: https://britastro.org/node/14147 This is a bumper edition of 59 pages with articles from nine different authors and many examples of the excellent work done by comet observers from around the world. I hope you enjoy reading it. If you have any comments or suggestions or would like to write an article for a future Comet's Tale please contact me. Nick James, Director. From djswanastro at outlook.com Mon Jun 25 19:31:46 2018 From: djswanastro at outlook.com (David Swan) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:31:46 +0000 Subject: [BAA Comets] cobs.si Message-ID: 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 From petercarson100 at gmail.com Mon Jun 25 20:25:38 2018 From: petercarson100 at gmail.com (Peter Carson) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 20:25:38 +0100 Subject: [BAA Comets] cobs.si In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 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 _______________________________________________ Comets-disc mailing list Comets-disc at lists.britastro.org http://lists.britastro.org/mailman/listinfo/comets-disc From djswanastro at outlook.com Mon Jun 25 21:05:07 2018 From: djswanastro at outlook.com (David Swan) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 20:05:07 +0000 Subject: [BAA Comets] cobs.si In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: 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 ________________________________________ From: Comets-disc on behalf of Peter Carson Sent: 25 June 2018 12:25:38 To: BAA Comets discussion list Subject: Re: [BAA Comets] cobs.si 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 _______________________________________________ Comets-disc mailing list Comets-disc at lists.britastro.org http://lists.britastro.org/mailman/listinfo/comets-disc _______________________________________________ Comets-disc mailing list Comets-disc at lists.britastro.org http://lists.britastro.org/mailman/listinfo/comets-disc From johan.warell at gmail.com Tue Jun 26 15:29:06 2018 From: johan.warell at gmail.com (Johan Warell) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:29:06 +0200 Subject: [BAA Comets] Comets-disc Digest, Vol 73, Issue 2 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 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. 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Re: cobs.si (David Swan) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:31:46 +0000 > From: David Swan > To: "comets-disc at lists.britastro.org" > > Subject: [BAA Comets] cobs.si > Message-ID: > < > DB3PR03MB07290111731D8F1699199B42A24A0 at DB3PR03MB0729.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 20:25:38 +0100 > From: "Peter Carson" > To: "BAA Comets discussion list" > Subject: Re: [BAA Comets] cobs.si > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; > reply-type=original > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Comets-disc mailing list > Comets-disc at lists.britastro.org > http://lists.britastro.org/mailman/listinfo/comets-disc > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 20:05:07 +0000 > From: David Swan > To: BAA Comets discussion list > Subject: Re: [BAA Comets] cobs.si > Message-ID: > < > AM2PR03MB07222A9F00F0D692014FF927A24A0 at AM2PR03MB0722.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > 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 > > > > ________________________________________ > From: Comets-disc on behalf of > Peter Carson > Sent: 25 June 2018 12:25:38 > To: BAA Comets discussion list > Subject: Re: [BAA Comets] cobs.si > > 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? 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