[AZ-Observing] Re: My Observing Notes On-line
- From: "Spencer, Darrell" <DSpencer@xxxxxxx>
- To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:10:44 -0800
Tom, I take it that your data input is not yet complete?
Reason being that surely ten observations using the 18" UC is not "whole
story".
And your advice has been taken to heart. While my input will be far,
far less torturous, it's best to start now - and to take better notes on
my impromptu weekday sessions - which should count!
Darrell
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[mailto:az-observing-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Polakis
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 9:10 AM
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Subject: [AZ-Observing] My Observing Notes On-line
For the past six weeks, I have been spending too much time on the
computer entering my observing notes from as early as 1979 into a single
database. At the end of all this, I learned that I have 3881
observations of 2349 unique objects, and took notes on 406 nights. I
saved the observations in no-frills html files, and published them at
this site.
http://members.cox.net/polakis/deepsky/obsnotes.htm
Disclaimer: much of it is written in abbreviated, deep-sky-ese language,
and there are likely errors galore, but what you see comes directly from
my notebooks.
I entered the notes into spreadsheet software, which made it easy to
learn such facts as: 76% of the objects I observed are in the NGC, 61%
of them are galaxies, and 15% of all the objects are in Virgo and Ursa
Major. I have zero notes for the constellations Equuleus and Corona
Borealis, despite looking at the CrB galaxy cluster (Abell 2065) a
number of times.
If you are new to observing, don't do what I did, waiting 30 years to do
a torturous data entry exercise. Get those observations in electronic
form, and back the file up.
Tom
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