Brian Tung wrote:
I do have my own method, but I'm afraid it won't work very well for
most people. I jot down a list of what I've observed, remember everything
I've seen, and after I go in, I simply write down a narrative of all the
stuff I've memorized. My memory for this is pretty good for a few hours
or days (provided no second session intervenes), so as long as I do it
reasonably soon, it's all there. Sometimes, I have to jot a few notes
down in my Palm, but that's pretty rare.

That's actually pretty close to how I've done it in the past few years.
Better yet--I find that writing my observations up in an observing
report (to be shared with an audience) is a great way to motivate the
actual writing. Then I copy the relevant sections of the observing
report to my logs. The result is a much better narrative: something
more interesting than the original jumble of notes taken at the eyepiece.


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