Re: How to turn ecliptic longitude into solar declination?

2022-10-16 Thread Michael Ossipoff
Okay, that’s good to hear. …& thanks clearing it up. On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 3:54 PM Steve Lelievre < steve.lelievre.can...@gmail.com> wrote: > Michael, > > On 2022-10-16 1:40 p.m., Michael Ossipoff wrote: > > Thank you for mentioning that I answered Steve's question. > > ...something not

Re: How to turn ecliptic longitude into solar declination?

2022-10-16 Thread Steve Lelievre
Michael, On 2022-10-16 1:40 p.m., Michael Ossipoff wrote: Thank you for mentioning that I answered Steve's question.   ...something not acknowledged by Steve for some reason. Please be assured that no slight was intended. Thank you for taking the time to reply to my question. I did not

Re: How to turn ecliptic longitude into solar declination?

2022-10-16 Thread Michael Ossipoff
Frank-- Thank you for mentioning that I answered Steve's question. ...something not acknowledged by Steve for some reason. I didn't notice that when I first read your post. Thanks for setting the record straight ! So, to the list I just want to clarify that, when Steve asked how to determine

Re: How to turn ecliptic longitude into solar declination?

2022-10-16 Thread Michael Ossipoff
[quote] At the moment we are in Vintagarious, the first month, and you will see that each day has the symbol for Aries. [/quote] Then you have an error, because Vendemiaire doesn't roughly approximate Aries. Vendemiaire roughly approximates Libra. As for the nature of the French Republican

Re: How to turn ecliptic longitude into solar declination?

2022-10-16 Thread Frank King
Dear Steve, Michael, Werner and Fabio have provided some excellent responses to your question. If you are ONLY interested in relating three ANGLES - solar longitude, solar declination and the obliquity - then this relationship is indeed all you need: sin(lambda).sin(obliquity) =