NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
Re: September Equinox computation
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2002 Sep 25, 09:57 +1000
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2002 Sep 25, 09:57 +1000
Peter Fogg wrote: > > Working from a DR of lat 0d and lon E109d 9'.9 on 23/09/02 I get a Zone Time > (E7) for the sun's upper meridian transit of 11:51:51, or 04:51:51 UT. > > What is 'right ascension'? And an altitude, for the sun's centre, of 90d 02'.8, which would indicate that the equinox happened 2.8 minutes of arc earlier?
