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Calculating the Apparent Position of the Sun *Latest version on page 4

 
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so where is the spreadsheet?
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At the link given at the end of the video.
[link to dropcanvas.com]
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Still waiting for a solid answer on WHAT is disturbing the orbits of the outer planets, from NASA.
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They answered that in the 90's.
[link to articles.adsabs.harvard.edu]
I have a thread on that subject here:
Thread: Robert Harrington's Planet X Does Not Exist
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Get a YESWATCH. I have the Zulu design. I can sit in a dark room anytime of the day or night and tell you exactly where the sun and/or moon are any time of the day or night with just a glance. You can tell how many hours of daylight or dark are left.

It displays sunrise, sunset, solar noon, the same with the moon and it's phase(s). It has an alarm that you can turn on to sound off 1/2 hour before and then at sunrise and 1/2 hour before, then at sunset.

It also displays the equinox's, solstices and cross quarters. Nothing complicated about it. All at just a glance. Plus all the other bells and whistles like countdown timers and alarms and can calculate using algorithms the sun and moon positions for 600 cities around the world any day for 99 years. I haven't tried that though.

Yeswatch. The Zulu (named after the prime meridian, or GMT). Cool as hell. Made in America by a great company.

I DO NOT HAVE ANY AFFILIATION WITH THEM OTHER THAN OWNING ONE OF THEIR WATCHES FROM THE ZULU COLLECTION.
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Well a watch is not going to give me equatorial coordinates of the sun and moon accurate to within about 2 arcseconds, but I mean if I really just wanted that I could look it up with my phone's skysafari program. The point of this was to practice some celestial mechanics and put Simon Newcomb's data back into use. There's more to come as well, I'll be adding more features to the spreadsheet in the future. I have a vision for it and this is just the next phase in fulfilling that vision.
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Hey Astro, is DVCMCM one of the zetatards who stalk you? I have seen him in most of your threads calling you a shill, yet never actually disproving any of your math.
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Ducky mostly blazes his own trail. He's usually obsessed with claiming that field rotation is fake and a conspiracy and that the moon should never look "horizontal" relative to the horizon from the northern hemisphere. You're right though; he never actually does anything to disprove any of my math showing it's normal.
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What song was used for that video? Simply beautiful :)
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I have expanded the capabilities of my lunar calculations spreadsheet to also calculate topocentric coordinates of the sun for any given observer and time. This uses Jean Meeus' approximation of Simon Newcomb's analytical method for determining the sun's position. Measuring the position of the sun within the CFHT cloudcam images reveals that the sun is precisely where it should be in those images.
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Pardon my ignorance Dr. Astro, Is the Sun traveling in space revolving around the center of our Galaxy? If so do we know the speed? Is it moving out from center of Galaxy?

Thanks for any information.
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Our solar system's velocity relative to the local stars is 19.7 km/sec in the direction of the solar apex I previously mentioned. Relative to the galactic center, we're moving at about 266.2 km/sec in the direction I previously mentioned; 20h 57m, +47d 53' (however the stars local to us are also moving generally in the same direction, the difference in our direction of travel relative to the local stars is 19.7 km/sec in the direction of the solar apex, 18hr RA, +66.5 Dec).
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What song was used for that video? Simply beautiful :)
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Thanks! "Blackheart" by Two Steps From Hell.
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Thank you, I would love to see a thread of your music collection if this is a hint of your taste :)
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so where is the spreadsheet?
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At the link given at the end of the video.
[link to dropcanvas.com]
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excellent.. viewing it now.
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I have expanded the capabilities of my lunar calculations spreadsheet to also calculate topocentric coordinates of the sun for any given observer and time. This uses Jean Meeus' approximation of Simon Newcomb's analytical method for determining the sun's position. Measuring the position of the sun within the CFHT cloudcam images reveals that the sun is precisely where it should be in those images.
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you're a shill and you know it clap your hands
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newcomb
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Why is the sun rising and setting now where it normally does in mid June?
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OP is completely asleep, or worse, in the know and purposely spreading disinfo. TPTB are running rampid with the DI, because Nibiru is near, very near. Everyone will soon have to come to terms with this.
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Astro, love the post man 5 * for you. Ok now, not trying to
derail from the topic but I was looking thru your karma, and
my God your red karma comments are the stuff of comic genius.
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Why is the sun rising and setting now where it normally does in mid June?
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It's not, it's precisely where it should be (as demonstrated in the video). At my location that's about 20 degrees north of due west at sunset.

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Why is the sun rising and setting now where it normally does in mid June?
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It's not, it's precisely where it should be (as demonstrated in the video). At my location that's about 20 degrees north of due west at sunset.
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Then where will it be in mid June.

That is where I calculate it to be in mid June.

It is hitting the north side of my house now which only happens in Mid June.
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OP is completely asleep, or worse, in the know and purposely spreading disinfo. TPTB are running rampid with the DI, because Nibiru is near, very near. Everyone will soon have to come to terms with this.
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Present the specifics of how you think his calculations are wrong or STFU.

Anything else is an Ad Hominem attack.
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Dr. Astro, have you seen this?
Thread: 400m Asteroid 360191 1988TA To Hit Earth May 9th Or 10th 2013?
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Astro, love the post man 5 * for you. Ok now, not trying to
derail from the topic but I was looking thru your karma, and
my God your red karma comments are the stuff of comic genius.
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You got me curious, so I looked at his karma. Christ, are these people for real?
I want to delude myself and think they are only trolling, but that's not true. They believe that shit.

God help us.
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I have expanded the capabilities of my lunar calculations spreadsheet to also calculate topocentric coordinates of the sun for any given observer and time. This uses Jean Meeus' approximation of Simon Newcomb's analytical method for determining the sun's position. Measuring the position of the sun within the CFHT cloudcam images reveals that the sun is precisely where it should be in those images.
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"Amateur astronomer, amateur photographer, communications clerk and professional disinformation agent". Fuck off.
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Wow, you are a tard
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Why is the sun rising and setting now where it normally does in mid June?
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It's not, it's precisely where it should be (as demonstrated in the video). At my location that's about 20 degrees north of due west at sunset.
 Quoting: Dr. Astro


Then where will it be in mid June.

That is where I calculate it to be in mid June.

It is hitting the north side of my house now which only happens in Mid June.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1211208

From my location it will be setting about 26 degrees north of west in mid-June. I don't know what calculations you're doing, but the ones I've done here show the sun to be in the correct location.
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I have expanded the capabilities of my lunar calculations spreadsheet to also calculate topocentric coordinates of the sun for any given observer and time. This uses Jean Meeus' approximation of Simon Newcomb's analytical method for determining the sun's position. Measuring the position of the sun within the CFHT cloudcam images reveals that the sun is precisely where it should be in those images.
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"Amateur astronomer, amateur photographer, communications clerk and professional disinformation agent". Fuck off.
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Hmmm, do you live in a trailer or your parents basement.....just not sure.
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Hadn't seen that before, but no, it will be about 0.03357 AUs from earth on May 10th, and since it's a well-observed object (# obs. used (total) 179
data-arc span 8979 days (24.58 yr) first obs. used 1988-10-05
last obs. used 2013-05-06 ) we know there's no risk of impact at that time. In fact it's not even on the sentry list of potential impactors because there is no impact risk for it any time in the foreseeable future. The only reason it's a PHA is because it regularly gets close to earth and is a potential risk in the very long term (not our lifetimes).
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Why is the sun rising and setting now where it normally does in mid June?
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It's not, it's precisely where it should be (as demonstrated in the video). At my location that's about 20 degrees north of due west at sunset.
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Then where will it be in mid June.

That is where I calculate it to be in mid June.

It is hitting the north side of my house now which only happens in Mid June.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1211208

From my location it will be setting about 26 degrees north of west in mid-June. I don't know what calculations you're doing, but the ones I've done here show the sun to be in the correct location.
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My calculations are based on 25 years living in the same house and observing where the sun rises and sets. It's where it normally is in mid June...right now..
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It's not, it's precisely where it should be (as demonstrated in the video). At my location that's about 20 degrees north of due west at sunset.
 Quoting: Dr. Astro


Then where will it be in mid June.

That is where I calculate it to be in mid June.

It is hitting the north side of my house now which only happens in Mid June.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1211208

From my location it will be setting about 26 degrees north of west in mid-June. I don't know what calculations you're doing, but the ones I've done here show the sun to be in the correct location.
 Quoting: Dr. Astro


My calculations are based on 25 years living in the same house and observing where the sun rises and sets. It's where it normally is in mid June...right now..
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No, it's not.

newcomb
I don't care how long you've lived in your house, Simon Newcomb's older than you are, I guarantee it. Of course he's also dead, but his data lives on. And his data shows the sun is right where it should be.
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Hey Doc.,

Your work and efforts are well appreceated. You have removed a lot of bull shit speculations of doom casted upon GLP. Im counting on you to keep the truth front and center as you always do.

You Rock
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Dr. Mut, in seriousness, did you just recently get you degree from some brick and mortar, ivy covered institution? Just wondering, because we all know that kind of learning is spoon fed through generations of octogenerarate doctorals.
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Dr. Mut, in seriousness, did you just recently get you degree from some brick and mortar, ivy covered institution? Just wondering, because we all know that kind of learning is spoon fed through generations of octogenerarate doctorals.
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I recently got my degree, but the kind of learning I did to do these calculations was mostly self-taught. The thing is, data passed down from generations before wouldn't work if something had changed and the sun were out of place.
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Calculating the Apparent Position of the Sun

Since we are traveling at 2,724,666 MPH (That is correct 2.7 million miles an hour) through the universe you would almost need to know the exact time you are talking about.
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Calculating the Apparent Position of the Sun

Since we are traveling at 2,724,666 MPH (That is correct 2.7 million miles an hour) through the universe you would almost need to know the exact time you are talking about.
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Our motion through the galaxy is shared by the sun, and the distance between our sun and other stars is huge. It's the motion relative to the sun that counts. That's not slow either, but the distance is large.

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I have expanded the capabilities of my lunar calculations spreadsheet to also calculate topocentric coordinates of the sun for any given observer and time. This uses Jean Meeus' approximation of Simon Newcomb's analytical method for determining the sun's position. Measuring the position of the sun within the CFHT cloudcam images reveals that the sun is precisely where it should be in those images.
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full of shit





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