Implemented features

• Fixed some issues with the calendar view

• Plenty of small improvmenets done to the web interface
• The asteroid/comet search had an internal glitch which caused some names to be interpreted as "not found". This has been fixed.
• Also, the Updater for the MPC data (MPCORB and CometsEls) for some reason didn't run correctly, so the data was obsolete. Now it is being updated daily in the afternoon
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• A tricky, well-hidden stupid bug caused sometimes to have false calculations for fixed time plans, falsely claiming they would need a very long time. Has been fixed

• Fixed an odd issue that caused under rare circumstances for a request to be executed twice
• Fixed FOV display when editing requests. Now it displays the correct FOV

Little news:

• Added the possibility to set a custom value for dithering
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Hi there,
back to working on the features. I've added:

• A checkbox to disable the preview generation
• A checbox to disable platesolving the final images

Both are useful if you need a quick cadence, i.e. short overhead times between frames. Both preview generation as well as platesolving take some time (especially with the huge images from the Veloce in Namibia) to complete and the next frame won't be taken before these two steps are done. Disabling them speeds up imaging considerabily. Please note that pointing might suffer during long plans, so be careful when using it.

Hi there,

today I added a few features which might be interesting:

• The currently running request is shown for each observatory. The initials of the respective user is also shown
• We do a few more checks to avoid the deletion of an actively running project. The system will try to pause it now. This still needs work, as currently the currently running request will continue until it ends or the current split is done

Ok I found out some smaller glitches when pausing/unpausing requests and resubmitting failed frames. This has now been solved.

fernandoyang try to clear the cache and reload the page. I fixed an issue with the display and it should work now

Okay, I fixed the underlying problem (which had to do with caching of some .JS files). Now and from now on the updates should propagate with a simple refresh of the page

Another small fix:

• When paying with PayPal, the system showed the agreement for a subscription. We always used the system for making one-time payments, and we finally found the issue. Paypal should now behave correctly, treating the transaction as single, one-time events.

• An overlooked bug (no, it's not a feature ) has been fixed: Until now, Imaging Requests that had been deleted left the single Observations without the possibility to ask for a refund. Particularily, even if a user already asked for a refund, those requests disappeared also on our Backend . This has been fixed. New behaviour is that a refund can be asked using the User Interface up to 7 days after image acquisition or archivation.

Also added a small indication about the load of each observatory. This can be useful if one wants to have an idea about how long it might take for a Request to be taken, and also to choose an observatory with less load.

Looks like a good run today:

• Added a summary mail which is being sent in the morning, summarizing all observations of the past night together with the costs.

I changed the default behaviour of the emails being sent when new observations come in. Currently, the default is that for every observation one mail is being sent - which can cause some heavy email traffic (and annoying traffic).
Now by default those progress mails won't be sent.
To compensate, there will be a daily resumee mail being sent at around 10 am UTC. I hope this is in everybody's interest