Importing Data from Skytools 3 to Skytools 4

[jtowson]

How is this done?

[theskyhound]

Hello,

There are a series of steps, so it's easier to point you to the right place in the help system than to retype it. Open SkyTools 4 Visual and then open the Help Contents. See the third topic down: Transferring Your SkyTools 3 data. If you have any questions about the process, please let me know.

[Edward Kort]

Hello,

There are a series of steps, so it's easier to point you to the right place in the help system than to retype it. Open SkyTools 4 Visual and then open the Help Contents. See the third topic down: Transferring Your SkyTools 3 data. If you have any questions about the process, please let me know.

Hi Greg,

I performed a sync from SkyTools 3 (imaging and visual version) to SkyTools 4 semi-successfully. My old data shows up fine in SkyTools 4 Visual, but nothing is imported into SkyTools 4 Imaging - where I do most of my work. It would really be great to have my old telescope, camera, lists, and images in the new version.

Thanks for your help.
Cheers, Edward Kort

[theskyhound]

Hi Greg,

I performed a sync from SkyTools 3 (imaging and visual version) to SkyTools 4 semi-successfully. My old data shows up fine in SkyTools 4 Visual, but nothing is imported into SkyTools 4 Imaging - where I do most of my work. It would really be great to have my old telescope, camera, lists, and images in the new version.

Thanks for your help.
Cheers, Edward Kort

Hello Edward,

The problem is that SkyTools 4 Imaging is an entirely new product. Everything except for locations and and optical tube assemblies are much expanded and radically different. Unfortunately there is no way around that. Imagine we tired to import a very limited SkyTools 3 camera into SkyTools 4. How would the gain settings be handled? Or for that matter, how would the filters be defined for the imaging system? The timings? Control system? There is no way to do all of this without more or less starting over.

You can import your lists, but many of those have been updated too. Best to find standard lists at the website and re download them. For custom lists, export each of them from ST3 as an stx file and then import them into st4.

[Edward Kort]

Thanks, Greg.

I did see the one-at-a-time export/import option for lists. That I have to use it is going to be painful. In the intervening years that I have used SkyTools, I've accumulated almost 500 observing lists. I guess it's time to do some housekeeping.

Cheers,
Edward Kort

[theskyhound]

Hello Edward,

Actually, I think I misread your post, because you mentioned imaging. As I recall, your SkyTools 3 observing lists are imported into SkyTools 4 Visual using the Sync process. Its the SkyTools Imaging that will not receive them naturally. Does that help?

Greg

[Edward Kort]

Hi Greg,

That's what I believe I reported: the lists show up in Visual but not Imaging (where I do most of my work).

Thanks,
Edward Kort