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RE: undetectable? - obrazell - 2020-07-10
If I have the filter set to visible it does not show up at all, unlike in ST3.
Owen
RE: undetectable? - theskyhound - 2020-07-11
(2020-07-10, 05:15 PM)obrazell Wrote: There is indeed a problem with F3 in the Nightly Planner as shown in the attachment. For some reason it only thinks it is visible for about a minute in the evening sky and therefore becomer not visible. The Ephemeris gives the correct best time I think. The program seems confused now it has gone circumpolar.
Owen
I can see that in this case it has set the best time to view in the evening, when it is better in the morning. That's a difficult special case to handle and I haven't had a lot of chances to test all the possible variations because it is rare. Try setting the left time slider to midnight.
RE: undetectable? - theskyhound - 2020-07-11
As it turns out, setting the time slider doesn't fix the problem with it picking the evening over the morning in the Nightly Planner. I am working on a fix, among a few others, and if things go well, an update may be only a few days away.
A better fix for this problem is to use the Ephemeris:
Select 2020 F3 as the target object
Choose the Nightly Observing Ephemeris
Select today's date
Set it to display at least a month
Each line displays the best time to view the comet on that date. Right-click to open a chart.