Package stella.merit

Class Summary

Class	Description
AbstractMerit	An abstract meriting class.
AbstractNightMerit
AbstractPhaseMerit	An abstract class that calculates the current phase of an object.
AfterPickMerit	This merit represents a merit that grows/shrinks after a first successful observation of a target.
AfterTimeMerit	This merit represents a merit that grows/shrinks after a specified time and dwindles out.
AirmassMerit	A merit calculating its gain from the actual airmass to the target compared to the minimal airmass it might get.
AtTimeMerit	A class defining a time-slot merit that peaks around a given date.
AvoidanceMerit	A merit calculating its gain from the distance to a certain location in the sky.
AvoidObservablesMerit	This merit features a list of targets names that render this merit zero, if any of them is observable.
BearingMerit	A merit calculating its gain from the desired bearing direction.
BeforeAfterMerit	A class defining a time-slot merit that allows observation either after or before a time defined with BeforeAfterMerit.KEY_T0.
BlockMerit	A class defining a time-slot merit for a target that should be observed repetitive each night in the similar block fashion.
BlockTimeMerit	This merit represents a merit that toggles between zero and 1 on jd0, stays at 1 for the specified number of days and than falls to zero again.
ChunkTimeMerit	This merit represents a merit that allows putting together chunks of observing periods by featuring a list of block-start JDs and a length parameter (days), either given as a single value or as a list of equal length than jd0.
ConsecutiveMerit	A consecutive merit guarantees a merit that is raised from the scale factor after it has been successfully observed for at least ConsecutiveMerit.KEY_SUCCESSCOUNT times.
ConstantMerit	A class defining a constant merit.
DarkSkyMerit	A dark sky merit combines an AirmassMerit and a SunAvoidanceMerit such, that it acts like the latter if the sun is higher than DarkSkyMerit.KEY_DARKLIMIT above the horizon, and as the former in the opposite case.
DawnMerit	A dusk merit acts like a time out merit during night time, but on dawn it ignores its timeout and returns always its maximum.
EvenlySpacedMerit	A class defining evently spaced time slot merits.
ExpressionMerit	An arbitrary double expression that is parseable to a single number at run-time.
FixedBlockMerit	A flavour of the EvenlySpacedMerit.
FixedDelayMerit	A flavour of the EvenlySpacedMerit.
FixedRateMerit	A flavour of the EvenlySpacedMerit.
FollowingProgramMerit	A following program merit guarantees a merit that is only higher then zero if another target FollowingProgramMerit.KEY_COMPLETED has been completed.
ForcedSwitchOnMerit	A class defining a time-slot merit for calibration observations that should not start before a named switch ForcedSwitchOnMerit.KEY_SWITCH is true and has been toggled to true at least ForcedSwitchOnMerit.KEY_ONFOR milliseconds.
ForcedTimeoutMerit	A class defining a time-slot merit for a continuos observations with a forced time-out after the last successful observation.
JdMerit	A class defining a time-slot merit that is active only within the defined span.
JdModulusMerit	A class defining a time-slot merit that is one if the modulus of the integer of the actual Jd with JdModulusMerit.KEY_MODULUS yields JdModulusMerit.KEY_REMAINDER, zero otherwise.
MeridianTransitMerit	A merit calculating its gain from the actual distance of the meridian to the target, but using different law on the east and on the west side of the meridian.
MiddayMerit	A merit that peaks around the true midday, i.e.
MidnightMerit	A merit that is peaks around the true midnight, i.e.
ModulusMerit	A class defining a time-slot merit that is a repetition of on/off states.
MoonAvoidanceMerit	A merit that calculates its gain from the distance of the target to the sun.
NightlyMerit	A class defining a time-slot merit for a target that should be observed up to KEY_PERNIGHT times in a night, at least separated by NightlyMerit.KEY_TIMEOUT.
NightOptimalAirmassMerit	A merit calculating its gain such that a single observation in a given night should be performed, if combined with an appropriately high ranked constant merit.
NightOptimalMerit	A merit calculating its gain such that a single observation in a given night should be performed, if combined with an appropriately high ranked constant merit.
NightStretchMerit	A class defining a time-slot merit for a target that should be observed up to KEY_PERNIGHT times in a night, at least separated by #KEY_TIMEOUT.
NumberMerit	A class defining a decreasing merit as the number of successful observations of the target increases.
OneObservationMerit	A class defining a one-observation merit.
OppositionMerit	A merit calculating its merit from the opposition time of the target.
PatternMerit	This class can be used to implement a single observational pattern.
PerNightBlockMerit	A class defining a time-slot merit for a target that should be observed up to KEY_PERNIGHT blocks in a night, at least separated by PerNightBlockMerit.KEY_TIMEOUT.
PerNightMerit	A class defining a time-slot merit for a target that should be observed up to KEY_PERNIGHT times in a night, at least separated by PerNightMerit.KEY_TIMEOUT.
PhaseAvoidanceMerit	A class defining a time-slot merit that allows observation of a target at all phases except the ones states in the avoidance list.
PhaseAvoidanceMerit.Xml	Creats an XML-segment out of the command line arguments, which are jd0 (t0), period in days and as a single string the phases to avoid.
PhaseCoherentMerit	A class defining a time-slot merit that allows observation of a target that requires phase-coherent observations.
PhaseCoherentMerit.Random	A test class for the phase coherent merit.
PhaseFillerMerit	A class that tries to match observations such, that phase gaps are minimized.
PhaseMerit	A class defining a time-slot merit that allows observation of a target that requires phased observations.
PickRaiseMerit	This merit represents a merit that grows/shrinks after a first successful observation of a target.
PriorityJumpMerit	A simple priority merit.
PriorityMerit	A simple priority merit.
RandomizeGroupMerit	This merit keeps all targets within a group at the same number of nightly observations.
RandomMerit	A merit calculating a random gain between zero and RandomMerit.KEY_IMPACT.
RandomSpacedMerit
RepetitiveMerit	This class can be used to implement a repetive pattern of observations.
SlewTimeMerit	A merit calculating its gain from the actual pointing position of the telescope to the position of the new target.
SouthMerit	A merit calculating its gain from the actual distance of the meridian to the target.
SuccessorCloseMerit	A close successor merit guarantees a merit that is only higher then zero if another target SuccessorCloseMerit.KEY_SUCCEED has been successfully observed for at least SuccessorCloseMerit.KEY_SUCCESSCOUNT times within a time span of SuccessorCloseMerit.KEY_SUCCESSTIME.
SuccessorMerit	A successor merit guarantees a merit that is only higher then zero if another target SuccessorMerit.KEY_SUCCEED has been successfully observed for at least SuccessorMerit.KEY_SUCCESSCOUNT times.
SunAvoidanceMerit	A merit that calculates its gain from the distance of the target to the sun.
TerminalMerit	A merit calculating its timeslot as being constant until a certain time in the future, then rather appruptely falling to zero.
TransitMerit	A class defining a time-slot merit that allows observation of a transiting target.
TransitOnOffMerit	This merit is identically to the TransitMerit except that it allows for a single 'off' observation within one period of an succsessful tranist observation.
UserMerit	A user merit for balancing user-based target selection.
WindowMerit	A merit calculating its gain from the remaining observation time of the target.
ZenithMerit	A merit calculating its gain from the actual airmass to the target.

Enum Summary

Enum	Description
BearingMerit.Bearing
PatternMerit.Phase