PIER-14 Starting from scratch

Good morning Manuel, 

Looking forward to seeing what you have come up with and appreciate the effort you are putting in on this.

Just a suggestion. Maybe it would be a good idea when you share your plans to create a new post, titled something along the lines of 'Let's discuss mosaics'. At that time I may create one called 'Let's discuss targets' and re-post my original short list of single targets together with anything suggested in the meantime. I'm sure Mr Asbury :) has some good ideas.

I think re-posting my original post will help to tidy things up and make it quicker and easier to navigate. Together with your one on mosaics there ought to be plenty for us to discuss ahead of the completion of the pier. 

Please do not take this seriously, although it does have one merit. 

Perhaps a mega mosaic, once submitted we could take most of the year off and come back when it finishes. Suggestion appears below. 

 

Good morning Ray,

Thanks a lot  ... I am actually looking at a very similar mosaic setup ... Will share as soon as the plan is ready.

Cheers

Manuel

Phil, 

On your private message, does £500 include one or both arms?

If a certain person goes on about future planning again, I might well take you up on the offer. 

Cheers, 

Ray

That just costs  bacon and mushroom sandwich to be fair.

Phil, 

On your private message, does £500 include one or both arms?

If a certain person goes on about future planning again, I might well take you up on the offer. 

Cheers, 

Ray

Lol. 

Do you have a tariff, based on the level of fixing you are prepared to carry out, that you could private message me.

Best regards,

Ray 

£10.00 per fix.

alternatively I accept coffee.

Lol. 

Do you have a tariff, based on the level of fixing you are prepared to carry out, that you could private message me.

Best regards,

Ray 

Thanks Phil, 

Just sent a message to Manuel, not that I doubt you. :)

It may well be that at present I can send to everyone in the list of users I'm presented with. I have only sent to Manuel. This could be very involved and complicated, but is there a way for people to turn this off so that they don't receive messages from those they don't know. This could be a can of helminths.

Best regards,

Ray 

This is where I come in. If you get messaged from anyone you don't want, I will fix it. and fix them.

Thanks Phil, 

Just sent a message to Manuel, not that I doubt you. :)

It may well be that at present I can send to everyone in the list of users I'm presented with. I have only sent to Manuel. This could be very involved and complicated, but is there a way for people to turn this off so that they don't receive messages from those they don't know. This could be a can of helminths.

Best regards,

Ray 

Screenshot below. 

Fixed.

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Hi Phil, 

Thick as 2 short planks here. 

Does this apply only to me. Apparently I'm not allowed to post private messages. I expect everyone else is allowed to. :)

 

Cheers,

Ray 

What does it say Ray?

Hi Phil, 

Thick as 2 short planks here. 

Does this apply only to me. Apparently I'm not allowed to post private messages. I expect everyone else is allowed to. :)

Cheers,

Ray 

Just a thought :)

I could ask Phil about turning on the PM DM (direct message) in the forum so members can email behind the scenes. It may make life easier for certain things ?

Steve

member to member messages have always been turned on.

In the top menu theres a bit for 'conversations'

Good morning Manuel, 

Looking forward to seeing what you have come up with and appreciate the effort you are putting in on this.

Just a suggestion. Maybe it would be a good idea when you share your plans to create a new post, titled something along the lines of 'Let's discuss mosaics'. At that time I may create one called 'Let's discuss targets' and re-post my original short list of single targets together with anything suggested in the meantime. I'm sure Mr Asbury :) has some good ideas.

I think re-posting my original post will help to tidy things up and make it quicker and easier to navigate. Together with your one on mosaics there ought to be plenty for us to discuss ahead of the completion of the pier. 

Please do not take this seriously, although it does have one merit. 

Perhaps a mega mosaic, once submitted we could take most of the year off and come back when it finishes. Suggestion appears below. 

Just a thought :)

I could ask Phil about turning on the PM DM (direct message) in the forum so members can email behind the scenes. It may make life easier for certain things ?

Steve

Good morning Steve,

Yes, that would certainly help as well, many thanks!

One question: Is there a way to link e.g. an Excel file to a DM or to a forum post? The reason I am asking is that I am working on the plan and would wish others to review, verify and of course suggest changes. This would also allow the final plan to be available easily to anyone in the syndicate.

All the best

Manuel

Manuel, 

Thanks for the suggestion let's see what Steve has to say. 

Still living very much in the dark ages I'm afraid, no Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp etc. and being frank but not wishing to appear rude, there is little interaction on the forum anyway, so I'm not sure you'll get the majority to join in. As a not so good alternative we could use email. If some others agree to doing this as an alternative to just using the forum, then I'll post my address.

Really appreciate your keenness, 

Best wishes, 

Ray (UK) 

Manuel, 

Thanks for the suggestion let's see what Steve has to say. 

Still living very much in the dark ages I'm afraid, no Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp etc. and being frank but not wishing to appear rude, there is little interaction on the forum anyway, so I'm not sure you'll get the majority to join in. As a not so good alternative we could use email. If some others agree to doing this as an alternative to just using the forum, then I'll post my address.

Really appreciate your keenness, 

Best wishes, 

Ray (UK) 

Hmmm ... maybe the new modern rather than the dark ages! 

Indeed, I noticed that ... a pitty I think, really. So, yes, lets go through email for now. 

BTW, I am just one hour "ahead" in Switzerland ... so easy.

All the best

Manuel

Just a thought :)

I could ask Phil about turning on the PM DM (direct message) in the forum so members can email behind the scenes. It may make life easier for certain things ?

Steve

Manuel, 

Thanks for the suggestion let's see what Steve has to say. 

Still living very much in the dark ages I'm afraid, no Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp etc. and being frank but not wishing to appear rude, there is little interaction on the forum anyway, so I'm not sure you'll get the majority to join in. As a not so good alternative we could use email. If some others agree to doing this as an alternative to just using the forum, then I'll post my address.

Really appreciate your keenness, 

Best wishes, 

Ray (UK) 

Manuel, 

Thanks for the suggestion let's see what Steve has to say. 

Still living very much in the dark ages I'm afraid, no Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp etc. and being frank but not wishing to appear rude, there is little interaction on the forum anyway, so I'm not sure you'll get the majority to join in. As a not so good alternative we could use email. If some others agree to doing this as an alternative to just using the forum, then I'll post my address.

Really appreciate your keenness, 

Best wishes, 

Ray (UK) 

Hmmm ... maybe the new modern rather than the dark ages! 

Indeed, I noticed that ... a pitty I think, really. So, yes, lets go through email for now. 

BTW, I am just one hour "ahead" in Switzerland ... so easy.

All the best

Manuel

Good morning/afternoon? Manuel,

That's really appreciated. :)

We just need to give it a couple of weeks to allow others the time to look all through this and post their suggestions and comments. After discussing these then this can be turned into a list of recommendations.

Best wishes,

Ray 

Of course, let's see what others are saying and suggesting ...

Best wishes

Manuel

Regarding #4613:

Thanks for the reply Ray ... let's see what is possible regarding job prioritisation. ... For Steve to say.

Interactive discussions:

1. Indeed, availability and time zones are a barrier. One way to address this might be to have a fortnightly or monthly fixed point that people can join or not.

2. I am in Switzerland, i.e. GMT+1. email is manuelcp.astro@gmail.com and I can be reached by WhatsApp/Telegram on +4179 200 9148. Best is between 6pm and 8pm my time on weekdays ... if you want to chat.

Cheers

Manuel

 

Morning everyone (Just about)

As you all know prioritisation is on a scale of 1-4

0 = HA
1 = SII OIII
2 = RGB
3 = Luminance
4 = Comets (proposed test jobs)

My suggestion would be to add a small test data set to Priority-4, this would make it the highest priority in the pier queue and moon avoidance parameters allowing it would do this before all other jobs.

I do have a couple of caveats to make however

1. When a tester job is placed it must be stated in the notes section with the order that its a tester and state Priority-4
2. test jobs should be short  (2 hours or under)
3. All priority jobs are discussed with other members prior to input - No exceptions
4. Please please try to forward plan as it will really help with implementing this feature and save a backlog
5. No moaning at us if priority jobs delay other work being captured although if it is used sensibly it should have very little impact on daily running of the pier in my opinion

Apart from that it should work fine and have no issues implementing this feature if you all want it, it may also work with re-inputs (bad subs) but I will have to have a think about that etc :)

Ps

My apologies for number 5 being so blunt but I have just spent over a month every clear evening behind the scenes tweaking our automated software to get it to do what I want (not easy) which was getting most jobs on p-14 finished in between a poor run of weather because a lot were in the same part of the sky and I don't really want to be doing that stress again any time soon.

Steve

 

 

 All good for me! 

Regarding #4613:

Thanks for the reply Ray ... let's see what is possible regarding job prioritisation. ... For Steve to say.

Interactive discussions:

1. Indeed, availability and time zones are a barrier. One way to address this might be to have a fortnightly or monthly fixed point that people can join or not.

2. I am in Switzerland, i.e. GMT+1. email is manuelcp.astro@gmail.com and I can be reached by WhatsApp/Telegram on +4179 200 9148. Best is between 6pm and 8pm my time on weekdays ... if you want to chat.

Cheers

Manuel

 

Morning everyone (Just about)

As you all know prioritisation is on a scale of 1-4

0 = HA
1 = SII OIII
2 = RGB
3 = Luminance
4 = Comets (proposed test jobs)

My suggestion would be to add a small test data set to Priority-4, this would make it the highest priority in the pier queue and moon avoidance parameters allowing it would do this before all other jobs.

I do have a couple of caveats to make however

1. When a tester job is placed it must be stated in the notes section with the order that its a tester and state Priority-4
2. test jobs should be short  (2 hours or under)
3. All priority jobs are discussed with other members prior to input - No exceptions
4. Please please try to forward plan as it will really help with implementing this feature and save a backlog
5. No moaning at us if priority jobs delay other work being captured although if it is used sensibly it should have very little impact on daily running of the pier in my opinion

Apart from that it should work fine and have no issues implementing this feature if you all want it, it may also work with re-inputs (bad subs) but I will have to have a think about that etc :)

Ps

My apologies for number 5 being so blunt but I have just spent over a month every clear evening behind the scenes tweaking our automated software to get it to do what I want (not easy) which was getting most jobs on p-14 finished in between a poor run of weather because a lot were in the same part of the sky and I don't really want to be doing that stress again any time soon.

Steve

Manuel, 

Thanks for the suggestion let's see what Steve has to say. 

Still living very much in the dark ages I'm afraid, no Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp etc. and being frank but not wishing to appear rude, there is little interaction on the forum anyway, so I'm not sure you'll get the majority to join in. As a not so good alternative we could use email. If some others agree to doing this as an alternative to just using the forum, then I'll post my address.

Really appreciate your keenness, 

Best wishes, 

Ray (UK)