2024-09-22, 05:05 AM
First of all, I just want to say that the capabilities of this software are astounding. I use it primarily for planning, visualizing, charting, and logging both visual and imaging sessions. I've bought or tried most of the software that's out there and this one is such a pleasure to use. Thank you!
I am planning my calendar of events for 2025 and I've been using the Event Finder tab, but it's been tedious. I looked into the documentation and found reference to a "Current Events" feature that would seem to suit my needs (right now I'm manually entering in all the planets and Messier objects along the ecliptic to see if and when they might "appulse" each other). However, I can't seem to find it anywhere.
Can someone point out where this feature might be and confirm if I really can input a list of objects that can be checked for appulses, conjunctions, occultations, and such?
Alternatively, is there a way to select all the major planets and check to see if they come within 3 degrees or so or anything along their path throughout the year? If so, can I filter by type (e.g. galaxy, star cluster, etc.) or apparent mag?
One more thing, I ran the Sat. Events for the Jovian moons and received the dates and times for eclipses even if they could not be observed. For example, 1/1/2025 Io will be occulted by Jupiter at 19:54, eclipsed at 21:37, and emerge from the eclipse by 22:43. I imagine that I would not be able to view Io being eclipsed as it would already be occulted by Jupiter. However, I don't see a way to limit for non-visible eclipses. This does not seem to be a problem for occultations as it does not give me a time between the eclipse start and end that says when it is no longer being occulted despite still being in Jupiter's shadow.
If possible, it would also be nice to include a filter for when an appulse or occultation is too close to the sun. For example, on 1/27 Mercury and M75 will be 11' apart, but too close to the Sun for comfort.
Lastly, it would be nice to be able to export these events as a csv. Currently it all copies to the clipboard and pastes in Excel as a single column with all the values in it which makes it difficult to extract the dates, times, events, altitudes, etc. to filter on.
If any of what I'm saying already exists, please let me know.
Again, I just want to mention again how much I love this product. I suggest it to my friends and club members whenever they ask about how I plan, log, chart, etc. These are just some of the things I noticed that I feel would make it even better. Thank you!
I am planning my calendar of events for 2025 and I've been using the Event Finder tab, but it's been tedious. I looked into the documentation and found reference to a "Current Events" feature that would seem to suit my needs (right now I'm manually entering in all the planets and Messier objects along the ecliptic to see if and when they might "appulse" each other). However, I can't seem to find it anywhere.
Can someone point out where this feature might be and confirm if I really can input a list of objects that can be checked for appulses, conjunctions, occultations, and such?
Alternatively, is there a way to select all the major planets and check to see if they come within 3 degrees or so or anything along their path throughout the year? If so, can I filter by type (e.g. galaxy, star cluster, etc.) or apparent mag?
One more thing, I ran the Sat. Events for the Jovian moons and received the dates and times for eclipses even if they could not be observed. For example, 1/1/2025 Io will be occulted by Jupiter at 19:54, eclipsed at 21:37, and emerge from the eclipse by 22:43. I imagine that I would not be able to view Io being eclipsed as it would already be occulted by Jupiter. However, I don't see a way to limit for non-visible eclipses. This does not seem to be a problem for occultations as it does not give me a time between the eclipse start and end that says when it is no longer being occulted despite still being in Jupiter's shadow.
If possible, it would also be nice to include a filter for when an appulse or occultation is too close to the sun. For example, on 1/27 Mercury and M75 will be 11' apart, but too close to the Sun for comfort.
Lastly, it would be nice to be able to export these events as a csv. Currently it all copies to the clipboard and pastes in Excel as a single column with all the values in it which makes it difficult to extract the dates, times, events, altitudes, etc. to filter on.
If any of what I'm saying already exists, please let me know.
Again, I just want to mention again how much I love this product. I suggest it to my friends and club members whenever they ask about how I plan, log, chart, etc. These are just some of the things I noticed that I feel would make it even better. Thank you!
