Occult Watcher 2.5
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The events list displayed by Occult Watcher is shown below.
The small rectangles in front of each of the events indicate the position of your site in the predicted shadow or have a special meaning (see below).
Blue rectangle indicates that your site is in the predicted shadow.
Red rectangle indicates that your site is in the 1-sigma limit but not in the shadow.
Yellow rectangle indicates that your site in the 10 x Shadow width zone (when enabled) but not in the 1-sigma or the shadow.
White rectangle indicates that your site outside the 1-sigma limit and not in the 10 x Shadow width zone (when enabled).Additionally the following two special icons are used:
A green exclamation mark means that the event is marked to be part of your "My Events" but the current filter does not include it. For your convenience all events you have marked as "My Event" are always shown!
A red exclamation mark has a meaning that may be a little confusing to you so please read carefully. It happens quite often that events from the IOTA Update feed are also included in other feeds. However the other feeds' predictions are not as precise as the IOTA Updates ones and often the two predictions could differ, sometimes with more than 100km.If you have subscribed to feeds other than IOTA Updates and there is an event from one of them that satisfies your filter criteria BUT in the same time this very same event is also listed in IOTA Updates but the prediction from IOTA Updates does not satisfy your filter criteria (i.e. is predicted to be too far); OccultWatcher will always take the IOTA Updates prediction as the most accurate one and will "overwrite" the one for the same event coming from the other feed.
Such an event will be marked with a red exclamation mark and most probably will not be very close to you. If you are using OccultWatcher in "Chronological Mode" (see below) the web details for the two predictions will be available.
If the event entry is highlighted (black background and bright green text) this means that this is a new event which you haven't seen so far or that the event's been recently updated. These are the events that make your OccultWatcher go mental and play annoying sounds and pop-up to tell you that there is something new or updated :) To mark the event as "reviewed" you only need to select it once and after that it won't be drawn as highlighted.
If an event has been updated in the past 5 days it will have a green background. If this is a new event which hasn't been shown so far it will have a "new" label at the end of the line. If the event has been updated it will have one or more asterisks indicating the number of times it has been updated by the feed owner.
If you right click in the events list and choose "Event Details", OccultWatcher will show you some more information about the event.
This information includes data about the star, including the name and coordinates from the prediction as well as all star aliases (from other catalogues) as returned by the VisieR web service. You need to be connected to internet to use this functionality.
Then OccultWatcher also shows you the asteroid number and name
As well as the occultation details such as event time at the selected location, magnitude drop, path and sigma widths, star and sum altitude, moon distance and illumination.
Occult Watcher's status bar (at the bottom of the form) shows the current status and may show more than one messages at a time. Those messages include:
Analysing - OW is checking all downloaded predictions to see which match your filter criteria.
Synchronising - The displayed feed is being checked for updates.
Last updated on ... - Shows the last time a synchronisation has been performed.
Idle - You can see this status if you use OW configured for a "Manual Synchronisation".
There is a new version is shown when there is a new version. Click on the green label to start the upgrade to this new version.
Error - Indicates that an error has occurred during the update. If you click on the label it will show more details.
