Some ideas
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 1:18 pm
I just got the program and am super excited about it, but also have some suggestions about ideas or improvements:
1) I also have starry night pro plus which is a desktop planetarium program, and one suggestion I have is to show all the constellations just as they would look from a specific location at a specific time. I would also like to see this with the planets and moons, so I can see transits, eclipses, phases, etc.
2) another suggestion is to fix the snow cover issue. We have a lot of days here where it's cold and dry and no snow on the ground and there should not be snow shown on the ground simply because it's below freezing. Im sure this can be done as most NWS stations also report snow cover, so if there is no snow cover, none should be shown on the landscape image.
3) please allow the input of official NWS airport locations (METAR) directly, rather than names of towns, as I am trying to use the program to keep track of the snowiest, coldest and warmest places on the planet. I have 58 locations saved to the program so far. I also want highest and lowest temps, snowfall amounts, etc, displayed and saved as in number 4 below
4) as an addendum to number 3, please allow data to be saved in excel format for each of these stations
5) I have another program (wxexchange from ambient weather and weather1) which allow info to directly be downloaded from any wunderground weather station onto the program for display and I would like the option of adding other peoples' weather stations to my yowindow, they also list the sky conditions and such so this should not be difficult to do. I would also like to save these data in excel format like number 4 above.
6) maybe in the future, like starry night pro plus allows, you can have 360 degree immersive panoramas that show the whole landscape in an image, as well as the whole sky with the constellations, sun, moon, etc, with accurate sky conditions and such (which is going beyond SNPP)? This would make this the complete package for weather and casual astronomy!
1) I also have starry night pro plus which is a desktop planetarium program, and one suggestion I have is to show all the constellations just as they would look from a specific location at a specific time. I would also like to see this with the planets and moons, so I can see transits, eclipses, phases, etc.
2) another suggestion is to fix the snow cover issue. We have a lot of days here where it's cold and dry and no snow on the ground and there should not be snow shown on the ground simply because it's below freezing. Im sure this can be done as most NWS stations also report snow cover, so if there is no snow cover, none should be shown on the landscape image.
3) please allow the input of official NWS airport locations (METAR) directly, rather than names of towns, as I am trying to use the program to keep track of the snowiest, coldest and warmest places on the planet. I have 58 locations saved to the program so far. I also want highest and lowest temps, snowfall amounts, etc, displayed and saved as in number 4 below
4) as an addendum to number 3, please allow data to be saved in excel format for each of these stations
5) I have another program (wxexchange from ambient weather and weather1) which allow info to directly be downloaded from any wunderground weather station onto the program for display and I would like the option of adding other peoples' weather stations to my yowindow, they also list the sky conditions and such so this should not be difficult to do. I would also like to save these data in excel format like number 4 above.
6) maybe in the future, like starry night pro plus allows, you can have 360 degree immersive panoramas that show the whole landscape in an image, as well as the whole sky with the constellations, sun, moon, etc, with accurate sky conditions and such (which is going beyond SNPP)? This would make this the complete package for weather and casual astronomy!