Please ignore my dylexia wherever possible, just be thankful I can control my Tourettes ;)
Things to do, so little time!
Steve
Roboscopes Tea Boy
Please ignore my dylexia wherever possible, just be thankful I can control my Tourettes ;)
Things to do, so little time!
Steve
Roboscopes Tea Boy
Hi Steve,
And a Happy New Year to you!
I was aware of that sticky note, but I must admit to being somewhat skeptical of those moon avoidance settings. It has been my experience that, as soon as a bright moon (e.g. more than 7 days old) is in the sky, most of the sky is flooded with ilight, irrespective of distance from the moon. However, that s only my experience, coupled with a few scientific papers on night-sky brightness at certain locations.
Nevertheless, I am sure that these curves must be based on empirical or modelled data based on the Roboscopes site. Given that some thought/modeeling must have gone into these curves, what max increase in sky brightness do these curves actually correspond to? Also I was a little confused by the "120 & 5" condition applied to each avoidance settings. I get the 120deg min separation at full moon, but wasn't sure what the &5 refrerred to (also the width 5) bar on each chart. Also what it the yellow line on each chart?
I wasn't aware that the system couldn't interpret <25% moon. Rather can it interpret limit of days post/pre new Moon? For those of us who are more adverse to having a brighter moon in the sky for broadband/OSC, this would appear to be a safer way to extend the imaging period. If the & 5 refers to avoidance in day around full moon, then it would appear the software could also taken into account a Boolean contract around "moon down or >7 days from full moon". Could the scheduling software be adapted?
Thanks
Brian
Please ignore my dylexia wherever possible, just be thankful I can control my Tourettes ;)
Things to do, so little time!
Steve
Roboscopes Tea Boy
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