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Re: equinox
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2004 Mar 20, 23:03 -0500
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2004 Mar 20, 23:03 -0500
I get a GHA of 280degrees 8.56', which would be a longitude of 79degrees 51.44' East. On Mar 20, 2004, at 10:53 PM, Fred Hebard wrote: > Yes, yet another blunder on my part. > > On Mar 20, 2004, at 6:07 PM, Trevor J. Kenchington wrote: > >> Don't think so, Fred. >> >> As you noted, the equinox occurred at 0648 GMT this morning. At 72W >> longitude, that is 0200 LMT, so the Sun cannot have been on that >> meridian at the time. >> >> Sun's GHA at 0648 GMT this morning was 220degrees 7.7', which would >> place it over the 139degree 52.3' East meridian -- roughly the >> meridian >> of Adelaide, South Australia. >> >> >> Trevor Kenchington >> >> >> You wrote: >> >>> I hope my wife won't yell at me for taking the time to report that >>> the >>> longitude would have been 72degrees 0.0' W at 0 declination. >>> >> >> >> -- >> Trevor J. Kenchington PhD Gadus@iStar.ca >> Gadus Associates, Office(902) 889-9250 >> R.R.#1, Musquodoboit Harbour, Fax (902) 889-9251 >> Nova Scotia B0J 2L0, CANADA Home (902) 889-3555 >> >> Science Serving the Fisheries >> http://home.istar.ca/~gadus >> >
