AAVSO does not accept N/A for an OBSCODE

Bugfix

• Added if statement to check for N/A for an OBSCODE, which will not be accepted by AAVSO.

fix setup files and AAVSO upload form

Bugfixes

• Fixed bug in setup files
• AAVSO only likes ASCII characters

Updated install instructions; more robust install scripts; bugfix for AAVSO upload file

Features

• General code cleanup.
• Updated Linux and Windows installation instructions
• Updated instructions for sample data

Bugfixes

• Update ecla.py with jit on solveme
• Fix plot_image error observed in Jupyter Lab
• Fix for misstated python requirements. Also, downgraded reqirements to Python 3.6. In no case can EXOTIC run under any earlier version of Python.
• Added runtime check for Python version to GUI
• Added version detection to Exotic GUI and requirements.txt
• Wrap tkinter imports with try-except to catch partial installs
• New tooling for install and launch to attempt auto-install of Python and Pip and to fail gracefully if these do not work
• bugfix on AAVSO output file

Bugfix to custom filter wavelengths

Features

• Cleaned up documentation.

Bugfixes

• Appropriately cast custom filter wavelengths as floats.

More robust launching of EXOTIC

Bugfix

• More robust launching of EXOTIC

Rob fixes his typo

Bugfixes

• Rob fixes his typo

Updated install/run

Features

• Vastly simplified the installation and running of EXOTIC. Now, the user needs to install Python and then onlydownload the appropriate installation file to their computer and double-click on it to both install and then run EXOTIC.

Updated requirements.txt order

Bugfixes

• Updated requirements.txt order

Update requirements.txt

Features

• Updated requirements.txt file to simplify install
• Updated GUI to give more explicit directions about calibration images

Beta GUI and Fedora Instructions

Features

• Beta version of a new GUI for running EXOTIC locally - can be run via exotic/gui.py
• New installation instructions for Fedora users

Bugfixes

• None...
• ...yet.