sun/moon eclipse tag

Hi Brian. Yep now workong OK for Moon eclipse . “21/januar/2019 04:12 (Local) 120%” ANd also max totality is correct 120%, thanks Brian…
Just waiting the update for sun data…

Marco.

Hi
OK, yes, I will do the same for the solar eclipse
so the 120% is correct?
as someone emailed me and asked about why is that above 100

I think 120% is OK, just means that the “shadow” is that much bigger than the moon. So 100% would be a very short eclipse cause the shadow would only just cover the moon.

Brian the date is now correct, but the time isn’t correct. My Lat/Long are 41.12 N 75.36 W

This is data from USNO:

Moon enters totality 2019 Jan 20 23:40.8 159.8 67.5
Middle of eclipse 2019 Jan 21 00:12.3 178.9 68.6
Moon leaves totality 2019 Jan 21 00:43.8 198.1 67.7

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Cheers

:smiley:

MikeyM

From hemel.waarnemen.com for Netherlands and belgium

De verduistering heeft een grootte van 1.20 in de kernschaduw.De eclips begint om 3:36 uur en staat bij het maximum, om 6:13 uur, op een hoogte van circa 21

you don’t mention what the time shows in WD Mikeym

It’s showing 10:12:29 (Local) http://mikeymsweather.com/wxastronomy.php bottom of page

the problem might be with the time zone
if you could email me your settings files mikeym

Sorry about that Brian:

Also here’s a screenshot of my sun/moon setup page.

#-o

MikeyM


the minutes is correct but the hour is not, which is why I think the time zone is not being picked up correct
what is the time zone you have set in control panel, solar setup?

Brian

Here’s my solar setup.

Thanks

MikeyM


10 hours off, looks like it’s using the wrong sign for the 5 hour tz adjustment.

Niko I agree, but the solar setup page say (-) if your East of GMT and I’m certainly West of GMT. Thanks for looking.

MikeyM :?

Your entry is correct, I wasn’t suggesting otherwise.

Niko

Oh no I didn’t mean anything negative. It was just I was confused by the 10 hour thing and wanted to make sure I had it correct. Thanks for looking at it.

:smiley:

MikeyM

the code I use it looks like I need to reverse the sign on the time zone
use new .zip update, ready now
it should be OK now
I also have azimuth and elevation working for the sun and moon now too

Cool :slight_smile:

Thanks Brian

Time looks good. Not sure what the azimuth and elevation are supposed to be showing?

Cheers

MikeyM


The sun alt and azi are not correct. Should be alt 23 deg and azi 208 deg, but showing alt -43 deg and azi 80 deg.

Those values did match up OK when I
Tested here but I will do more testing when I
am back home in 48 hours
I suspect it’s a local time problem