VSP

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Fri, 12/02/2016 - 00:50

tonight I was in somewhat of a hurry to plot some new charts (to take advantage of the 5 minutes of clear night skies per December  here in VA) and failed to notice the latest VSP deprovement.  For my 'scope and its widest FOV eyepiece, I get an almost perfect match using a FOV of 120 arc minutes and limit 11.5.  After four attempts (it defaulted first to 7, then to 8. . . .  I saw that the form no longer accepts user inputs but requires instead the use of a pull down list.  Whose idea was that??

No matter, I will adapt.   And I must say I will accept even more strange gizmos on VSP if only you will revert to the former method of chart naming, namely according to date.  I mean, really, is it necessary to label a chart generated on 1Dec16 as X16936RN, and another, generated two minutes later, as X174004ABW?