Blaine,
When you create an observation, we take the current time (the chart's time) and look at all your current sessions. If there is a session within the past six hours and if your location is within 300 meters of the session's location, the code should use that session and extend the end time to the current time. If it can't find a recent session, it will create a new one.
Just remember, a session will get reused and appended to only if:
We use the chart's time and location so you can easily enter past observations. If it wasn't working, my guess is the chart time or location didn't match.
Sorry but I'm not sure what "the chart" is - you mean another word for the current time/location setting in the app?
The chart's time is in the top left corner of the sky chart.
I think I get why I'm having this problem... I created the session for the coming evening in the morning or the previous evening (can't remember). This was thus outside the 6 hour time frame so I got a new session. It appears that SS forces you to create and name the new session just prior to actually doing the session.
Excellent, Blaine!
I found this thread while looking into this recurring problem. Every evening I create an observing session when I go to log the first observation. My location never changes and yet every time I go to log an observation a new empty observation list is created. By the end of every session I have quite a few empty observation sessions that I need to delete. And they all share the same start time....regardless of when I log the observation.
Edited to add: I am on the latest beta version on Android 14, Pixel 6a.
