2022-04-07, 01:36 AM
Hi,
yes, I do seem to recall that “Export to File” included the coördinates before the latest two or three updates that you released in quick succession.
I thank you for the tip on using Print/Copy: the is easily turned into a TSV file which I can easily use.
I am not sure who is not listening. In an area as new to me as astronomy I am eager to listen to advice but in this conversation what I have heard were mainly admonitions to use the software as intended by you and refrain from using other software. That is off-putting.
The “horizon″ of a location is an old-fashioned mapping expression for the hemisphere centered on a given location. The maps in ST4 are aesthetically very pleasing and very useful for certain purposes but they are also slow (panning/zooming) and, as far as I can tell, I cannot use them for charting the objects of one or more observing lists. And that is fine but such charts would help me in planning.
In a GIS application (such as QGIS) I can have a separate layer for each observing list and/or for each object type within those lists, I can turn those layers on/off in any combination, panning and zooming are instantaneous and labels can be made to turn on/off as a function of scale. These are among the reasons why I intend to rely partly on other applications.
If have missed something in ST4, of failed to learn to use ST4 as well as you demand, or if I belong to some weird niche in your assessment, feel free to ignore me.
yes, I do seem to recall that “Export to File” included the coördinates before the latest two or three updates that you released in quick succession.
I thank you for the tip on using Print/Copy: the is easily turned into a TSV file which I can easily use.
I am not sure who is not listening. In an area as new to me as astronomy I am eager to listen to advice but in this conversation what I have heard were mainly admonitions to use the software as intended by you and refrain from using other software. That is off-putting.
The “horizon″ of a location is an old-fashioned mapping expression for the hemisphere centered on a given location. The maps in ST4 are aesthetically very pleasing and very useful for certain purposes but they are also slow (panning/zooming) and, as far as I can tell, I cannot use them for charting the objects of one or more observing lists. And that is fine but such charts would help me in planning.
In a GIS application (such as QGIS) I can have a separate layer for each observing list and/or for each object type within those lists, I can turn those layers on/off in any combination, panning and zooming are instantaneous and labels can be made to turn on/off as a function of scale. These are among the reasons why I intend to rely partly on other applications.
If have missed something in ST4, of failed to learn to use ST4 as well as you demand, or if I belong to some weird niche in your assessment, feel free to ignore me.