It would be nice to be able to observe solar system objects.
Currently if we type in a planet, we tried "jupiter", it can't find it. I think this is because the RA and Dec are time dependent.
In the future, it would be nice to use PROMPT to study comets, asteroids, and other such stuff — not just letting students observe the major planets for class.
Thanks so much! — Jonathan
I don't imagine any of the Prompt programmers are (exactly) looking for things to do, but here is one item for the list that you might want to think about. Someday. It would be nice to be able to queue up an object for 2 or 3 separate images at different times on a given night, or be able to take images on successive nights but not separated by, always, the same time interval (which leads to aliasing in the kind of work that I am doing, and possibly Dan Caton). I do that scheduling now in a crude way by submitting jobs with different airmass limits, and that sorta works. But the minimum airmass of 1.5 is significantly too large. Even if it were 1.25 or 1.3 it would help me enormously as I might be able to tweak the system to give me exposures within an hour or so of the meridian — though I'm not sure I understand how the existing algorithm schedules. I'm also wondering if the 80 second maximum exposure might be raised sometime — especially since it seems to me that tracking on P4 is better these days.
