2023-05-09, 06:38 PM
Hello,
The way it is intended to work, all you should need to do is select Multiple Stars Only. It won't care if any are variable.
However, I believe that I can explain your result for V376 Cep. If you logged the variable star itself (V376 Cep) then you made a log entry for that specific star. True, it also is part of a multiple star system, but what you logged was that star only. In SkyTools, multiple stars are organized into systems that are identified with the primary star, so in order to count as a multiple star system, you would have to have logged the primary star of the multiple star system. It will not count V376 Cep as a logged multiple star system if you log the component star itself. This makes sense from the point of view of types of log entries, because presumably you selected this component because it is variable not because it is part of a pair. It also makes sense in the general search case, where you are searching the database for multiple stars that have a component that is variable. But it fails for what you are trying to do in counting all of the multiple star systems you have logged, due to the technicality of V376 being singled out when you logged it.
Its no so much that the result is wrong, as it is looking at what you chose to log, which in the case of V376 Cep, is the variable star independent of the multiple star system. Had you logged the whole system, it wouldn't be an issue.
Unfortunately, other than doing what you did to find V376 Cep, I can't think of a way to get exactly what you want. It looks like you may need to check all of your variables in the Object Info.
Another option is to consider if V376 really was an observation of a multiple star after all. I mean, if you didn't note the pair, then is it really a multiple star observation?
I'll think about ways to accomplish this, but it may be cooked into the system. Even if I added types of stars into the Log Browser Search, we would run into the same problem.
The way it is intended to work, all you should need to do is select Multiple Stars Only. It won't care if any are variable.
However, I believe that I can explain your result for V376 Cep. If you logged the variable star itself (V376 Cep) then you made a log entry for that specific star. True, it also is part of a multiple star system, but what you logged was that star only. In SkyTools, multiple stars are organized into systems that are identified with the primary star, so in order to count as a multiple star system, you would have to have logged the primary star of the multiple star system. It will not count V376 Cep as a logged multiple star system if you log the component star itself. This makes sense from the point of view of types of log entries, because presumably you selected this component because it is variable not because it is part of a pair. It also makes sense in the general search case, where you are searching the database for multiple stars that have a component that is variable. But it fails for what you are trying to do in counting all of the multiple star systems you have logged, due to the technicality of V376 being singled out when you logged it.
Its no so much that the result is wrong, as it is looking at what you chose to log, which in the case of V376 Cep, is the variable star independent of the multiple star system. Had you logged the whole system, it wouldn't be an issue.
Unfortunately, other than doing what you did to find V376 Cep, I can't think of a way to get exactly what you want. It looks like you may need to check all of your variables in the Object Info.
Another option is to consider if V376 really was an observation of a multiple star after all. I mean, if you didn't note the pair, then is it really a multiple star observation?
I'll think about ways to accomplish this, but it may be cooked into the system. Even if I added types of stars into the Log Browser Search, we would run into the same problem.
Clear skies,
Greg
Head Dude at Skyhound
Greg
Head Dude at Skyhound