Oops! Sorry about the banal error, and most grateful for all the
comments. Fortunately nothing was carved in stone, and the sign error
has now been corrected.
Other points:
1. The incorrect Equation of Time has now been relabelled Standard
Time Correction and it is explained that it is the
Even if, already from two centuries, in all the nations, engineers and
scientists have tried of to reach an unification of the different quantities
that are used in industry and in science and hundreds of International
Conferences have been made for adopting the same definitions all over the
al@rrz.uni-koeln.de
Sent: 01 May 2001 16:13
Subject: Solar Noon Equation of
Time Calculator
Hi Piers ,I have visited with a lot of interest your Solar
Noon Calculator on the webat www.solar-noon.com and I have immediately
made some tests to compare yourvalues with those calculat
Hi Piers ,
I have visited with a lot of interest your Solar Noon Calculator on the web
at www.solar-noon.com and I have immediately made some tests to compare your
values with those calculated from me and published in an article in the
proceedings of our X Seminario di Gnomonica ( X Italian
Gianni wrote:
As in almost all Web sites, also you take as positive the Longitudes for
places West of Greenwich.
Despite the opinion of the known astronomer J. Meeus, with which also
Davis
agrees in his Sundial Glossary, even if a secular tradition justifies this
definition, it is NOT
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Steve Lelievre wrote:
Gianni wrote:
As in almost all Web sites, also you take as positive the Longitudes for
places West of Greenwich.
The Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomic Almanac (USNO 1992) at page
203 affirms:
The geocentric longitude is defined by
Message text written by Steve Lelievre
I'd like to know what other people think about the right convention to
use.
I don't think that it matters ONE JOT what convention is actually used so
long as the end result is correct, explained and understandable to others
of a different persuasion.
The
Amen!
John S
- Original Message -
From: Patrick Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message text written by Steve Lelievre
I'd like to know what other people think about the right convention to
use.
I don't think that it matters ONE JOT what convention is actually used so
long as the end
We have just posted on the web a new Solar Noon Calculator which prints out a
table showing the time of solar noon for your longitude for every day of the
year on one side of a landscape A4 sheet. It is at www.solar-noon.com.
Please feel free to use it. We would welcome links to it - we
