At present the rising plan delay will delay the plans as much as it can provided it does not breach the three limits. In practice, most of the rising plans will be delayed till it reaches transit. In effect, we'll be imaging mostly on the west side of the sky instead of on both sides of the meridian. Will this effectively limit our imaging time window? Furthermore, if we have already completed imaging all targets on the west side, Scheduler still waits until the rising plans reach transit. Which was what I observed the other day and perhaps not an optimal use of available imaging time.
Does it make sense to have a user configurable "No Delay Zone" which defines the maximum rising limit scheduler will allow? This is specified as hours before transit. For example, if "No Delay Zone" is set as 1.5 hours, then scheduler will only delay rising plans up to 1.5 hours before transit. Which means imaging for the target can start 1.5 hours before reaching the meridian.
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