[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I always set my time to "noon".
Assuming that the "noon" means local noon where I am in FG world, I don't think
the sun is correctly placed.
First I found it too low for noon, then checked two things:
1. The little clock showing "Zulu" (this is UTC right?) time is appropriately
offset from my local-in-FG noon time.
2. Then I turned my plane facing the Sun stright on, and checked my heading
from properties. It was around 240 or so. But from a Northern hemisphere
location should it not be 180 at noon? This placement is more like mid-late
afternoon.
Is FG world aware of the seasons as well? I think it is, and if that is the case the lower declination than I expect may be partly attributed to it.
But I can find no explanation why the Sun would not be close to heading 180 at
noon.
When you set the time of day to noon. FG runs the sun through it's path
for the current date (accounting for season/date and your location.) It
picks the highest point in the arc (within 5 minutes) for the sun
location. You could try running time forward and backwards "T/t" to
convince yourself that the sun is at it's highest point.
Curt.
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