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Re: Eqn. of time
From: Bill B
Date: 2005 Jan 4, 13:56 -0500
From: Bill B
Date: 2005 Jan 4, 13:56 -0500
> Bill you wrote: > "Do any of the list know if such a chart is available online? If not, a > tabular listing that could be used in Excel to construct a chart without > keyboarding dates and eqn. of time from the almanac? > I have had no luck locating an analemma that meets my requirements." >Frank replied: > Do you just want an analemma for 2005? Essentially, but would prefer a graph as opposed to the figure 8. > Yes, that's something you could do in > Excel. What level of accuracy do you want, at least and at best? Would like one year in 12 hour increments along the x axis and plus/minus 17 minutes with 6 second resolution on the y axis. Basically 730 x 340 resolution. That may be outside the range of Excel to chart, but could easily be broken into chunks Excel could chew on and the resulting charts assembled graphically. Higher resolution would be nice, but perhaps unreadable on a manageable paper size, could live with 365 x 136 resolution. Thanks Bill