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Re: (meteorobs) Fwd: Meteor software for PalmOS?
This is not the same method as is discussed here but I thought it might be of
some interest to people trying to design systems of manual recording. The
Hewlett Packard 41c hand held computer had an accessory, "Time Module". This
module enabled me to write a computer program that worked as follow. At a
preset time like 12 PM it would beep and start accepting data. Each time you
observed a meteor of the shower of interest you would push a programmed
button. This would increment the count in a stack. At increments of time
like a half an hour the pointer to the stack would be incremented. In the
morning at the preprogrammed time it would stop accepting data. This enabled
you to read out graphically the time distribution of the occurrence of the
meteors. In the cold of night the Liquid Crystal display stopped working but
the computer continued to function. I must confess that I had limited success
with this method because operating in the dark by feel I would sometime manage
to push the wrong buttons on the computer and this always caused error
termination of the program. It was nice though when it worked. This
distribution is not complete enough data for this organization. The latter
models of Hp had built in timer units but they could not be programmed to do
this same function.
Mark Davis (via Lew Gramer) wrote:
> ------- Forwarded Message
>
> Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 10:46:37 -0500
> From: Mark Davis <MeteorObs@charlestondot net>
> Subject: Fw: Meteor software for PalmOS?
> To: Meteor Observing List <meteorobs@jovian.com>
> Cc: Jon Stewart-Taylor <jstewart@pliantsystems.com>
>
> Below is an email I recently received regarding the possibility of using a
> PalmOS to record meteor date while observing. Since I am unfamiliar with
> this equipment, I recommended to Jon that he subscribe to this list and
> solicit input from the subscribers here. He hasn't subscribed yet, but
> should in the next day or so. If anyone has any input or experience with a
> PalmOS, please share your thoughts/experiences.
>
> Thanks!
> Mark Davis
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon Stewart-Taylor" <jstewart@pliantsystems.com>
> To: <meteorobs@Charlestondot net>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 9:03 AM
> Subject: Meteor software for PalmOS?
>
> Hi Mark. I got this address off the IMO website: my appologies if this
> isn't an appropriate address to use for this.
>
> I've been thinking about using a PalmOS "connected organizer" to record
> my meteor observations. Some web searches haven't turned up anything,
> and a friend had mixed results trying to use a forms package (too much
> time writing and not enough time observing). Do you know of any meteor
> observing software? Is there a meteor mailing list i could bring the
> topic up on?
>
> I've coded my thoughts into a partially working mock-up running as a
> Java applet:
>
> http://jcst.tripod.com/showMeteor.html
>
> My eventual goal is a free-ware application which will allow recording a
> meteor observing session without significant writing or looking at the
> screen except to record sky conditions, but of course i don't want to
> reinvent the proverbial wheel. Any feedback on the idea or it's
> implementation would be very welcome, and please feel free to pass
> either the URL or this message on to anyone you feel would be
> interested.
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> J.
> - --
> Jon Stewart-Taylor jstewart@pliantsystems.com Ph:
> 919-405-4747
> Chapel Hill Astronomy: http://rtpnet.org/chaos/
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