2022-01-24, 11:19 PM
(This post was last modified: 2022-01-24, 11:42 PM by theskyhound.)
Hello,
Sorry. I was in a hurry this morning and I didn't read your message as carefully as I should have. For some reason I also thought you were a prospective buyer--I didn't realize you already owned SkyTools.
Rather than focus on a specific capability, let me turn your question around. What is it that you are trying to accomplish? How do you plan to use this specific information? E.g. are you writing a book?
While SkyTools does have the ability to do this sort of calculation for a single object with the Ephemeris and the Object Info, it can't do what you are asking specifically. The main reason for this is that is, once you have this information, how would you use it? Ultimately we can't observe on more than one night at a time, so SkyTools focuses on that: planning for the next night you intend to observe. Its the same information, but put to use more specifically rather than as an abstract.
In other words, in my view, it is much more useful to know what you can observe tomorrow night, or on March 12, rather than the Crab Nebula is a Winter object.
The intervals are only valid for the Position and Binary star ephemeris. My guess is that you have the Nightly Observing Ephemeris, which always operates on a daily basis.
Sorry. I was in a hurry this morning and I didn't read your message as carefully as I should have. For some reason I also thought you were a prospective buyer--I didn't realize you already owned SkyTools.
Rather than focus on a specific capability, let me turn your question around. What is it that you are trying to accomplish? How do you plan to use this specific information? E.g. are you writing a book?
While SkyTools does have the ability to do this sort of calculation for a single object with the Ephemeris and the Object Info, it can't do what you are asking specifically. The main reason for this is that is, once you have this information, how would you use it? Ultimately we can't observe on more than one night at a time, so SkyTools focuses on that: planning for the next night you intend to observe. Its the same information, but put to use more specifically rather than as an abstract.
In other words, in my view, it is much more useful to know what you can observe tomorrow night, or on March 12, rather than the Crab Nebula is a Winter object.
The intervals are only valid for the Position and Binary star ephemeris. My guess is that you have the Nightly Observing Ephemeris, which always operates on a daily basis.
Clear skies,
Greg
Head Dude at Skyhound
Greg
Head Dude at Skyhound