New Photometry Observation Submission Tool

Technology
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In the submission preview, I’m guessing the grey dots are Visual data?

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When I click on Visual in the legend to turn Visual display off, the grey dots remain and now the V and B data appears copied and shifted to the right:

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@knak Thanks for sharing your feedback. Would you be able to send the file over to our email so we can take a look?

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Hi everyone!

I’ve been testing this new tool, and so far, I find it really nice and very functional. I truly appreciate being able to input dates in JD or regular format and have them converted on the fly. I also love the new observation previewer, which allows me to check that my observations make sense before submitting them.

A few comments:

  • I really think the new tool should allow submitting observations older than one year, just like the good old WebObs. Today, I was reviewing old images with other variables in the same FOV that weren’t my primary target, and I wanted to report them but had to use the old system instead.
  • It would be great to add a feature for manually reporting “ensemble” observations, perhaps with a checkbox to hide the comparison star field when selected. For example, in AstroImageJ, it’s possible to save the apertures, making this type of photometry easy to repeat during weekly follow-ups of a star when you just want to report one observation at a time.

Thanks for all the hard work you’re putting into this! It’s great to see some fresh air being brought to AAVSO’s platform.

Best regards,
Carlos Silva
(SCMA)

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Still issues with the new tool with Comp, check star labels. I can not submit several stars I follow nightly with the new tool due to those issues and still use the old WebObs tool. I hope it is still available after Feb. 1.
Also if I copy all stars into one TXT file I get errors and am unable to submit this file, whereas WebObs has no problem at all.

Josch Hambsch (HMB)

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I’ve been able to now use the Observation Submission Tool for SNEWS targets, and it seems to be working fine for those stars that are being imaged and processed through AAVSOnet.
The new tool is working fine, and it is great to see the “flags” to examine certain stars that are outside the “expected” magnitude range.
For AAVSOnet generated images I do not find any issues.

Thanks,
Andrew

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I have one comment for entering “Visual Observation Type” into the new Photometry Submission Tool.
Once the visual observation is entered and the “continue” button is clicked, the Submission Preview page is helpful to see where the visual observation falls compared to others.
Then once the “Submit Observations” button is clicked, the user is not returned to the “submit observations” page, but goes to the “search data” page. When entering numerous visual observations one-by-one, this adds extra steps to then click to get back to the submission tool page.

My request would be that after the observation is submitted that we are returned to the Submit Observations page to be able to enter another observation, instead of the search data page.

Thanks,
Andrew

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It still does not work for APASS DR10 star names and even though it works for other star names (UCAC, AAVSO sequence) under Google Chrome browser it does not come back to the next page but gives a 502 Bad Gateway error.
It also does not correctly count the observations in the period given (mostly 4 weeks). It does not count the observations if one user only is submitting the data.
Josch