Re: [amsat-bb] Nova

["Michael R. Owen" <mowen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Cliff,

Like many other "big" software applications (MS Word, Excel, etc), Nova 
can be difficult at times.  No doubt about it.  The more knobs that are 
available to turn, the more likely the user can become lost.  Nova is 
designed for maximum flexibility and this means that it can also be 
maximally confusing.  For example, the notion that each View can have 
its own set of satellites, maps, observers and settings is sometimes 
intimidating. 

In his epoch-setting Instant Track, Franklin Antonio set the standard 
for bullet-proof amateur software.  Instant Track set out to do a 
limited number of tasks and it did them extremely well.  As a 
consequence, it needed virtually no revision.  Nova, being more 
ambitious but less perfect, has evolved through time and has also 
developed some quirks and, yes, bugs.

I try to remain responsive to user input, bug reports, and suggestions.  
Nova-Net (http://www.nlsa.com/nets/nova-net-help.html) is a forum for 
this, perhaps more appropriate than amsat-bb.  I hope that you can 
understand however, that with over 300,000 lines of code, a complete 
revision of Nova is not imminent.

73,
W9IP

Cliff Buttschardt wrote:

>Nova at best, has been one of the most difficult if not impossible programs
>imaginable!  Some time in the future we have to convince Mike Owns that a 
>complete modification is necessary.  As it stands now, very few can even bring up
>the most fundamental tracking and that with much effort.,   Cliff KR
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>Pat wrote:
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>>I was wondering if any one else is experiencing weird or odd things with
>>nova?  I am seeing AOS time acting very strangly, such as AO-27 passes and
>>the the next aos time is like 23hrs away when I know it is only an hour and
>>20min away.  Have there been some bugs lately and is there a copy that is
>>fixed?
>>73,
>>Patrick Lehman
>>N0JAK  En32
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