2023-02-01, 05:53 PM
(2023-02-01, 02:10 PM)bigmasterdrago Wrote:(2023-01-27, 05:09 PM)theskyhound Wrote: Xmas is coming in the form of version 4.1 later this year. If you guys could have one wish with SkyTools to make this process of observing close approachers easier, what would it be?
Better yet, no need to get caught up in a specific feature request, but rather identify something in the process that is clunky, time consuming, or frustrating, and let me figure out how to make it better.
If I could have a single Christmas gift in ST, it would be some sort of single click that I could make b4 I go have breakfast. The entire process of working with asteroids in ST is clunky, sometimes frustrating, & always time consuming. That single click would initiate a command to fetch all the latest elements of NEAs for the date I'm interested in - most likely the date on the computer clock. Then, I can run DBPS to refine my list for that day.
Automate this process with a one click....
1st click - wait for backup of supplemental data files
2nd click to download MP
3rd click to fetch & install
4th click to download
wait.....
while it downloads, reads, updates, creates 200 day epoch, writing epoch files, rebuild cross index files
5th click to close
6th click to accept
That would be nice, but I like to examine the MPDB after Step #5 to see which MPs have been added to the DB. Sometimes the 'NEAs at Today's Epoch' file from MPC doesn't contain the most recently discovered NEOs & the close approach is upon us. In that case, I download the single NEO's elements from MPC. That info always uses the Standard Epoch, currently 2023 Feb 25 0000 UT.
Phil S.