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ompobslog tour
THE OMPOBSLOG WINDOW

The ompobslog window is divided into the following sections:



Menu Buttons

Exit
Exit
Rescan
obslog generates its list of observations by reference to the headers of received files. It does this automatically every 5 minutes; to force it to do it now, click this button.
Dump Text
Produces an ASCII file of the observations list
Options
Currently switch userid, switch telescope, and switch UT date





Instrument Tabs

One per instrument used in the night so far. Just click to switch to another instrument's log window.






Logging Window

Contents
Different for each instrument, but showing observation numbers, group identifications, basic instrument parameters, airmass and timing.






Shift Comment Entry Box

Time Stamp
This time will be added to any comment you enter
Text box (at bottom)
Text field for entry of comments. The shift comments are stored separately and represent a record of events you don't want to associate with any given observation - for example "sky looking locally good, but cirrus on the horizon"
View all button
Pops up a window showing all shift comments to date.
Submit button
Submits the contents of the text field as a new shift comment.






Contact: Andy Adamson. Updated: Tue Dec 21 03:21:30 HST 2004

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