[AZ-Observing] Re: Polaris Transit
- From: "Peter Argenziano" <pargenz@xxxxxxx>
- To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 08:18:37 -0700
Stan... ask three different sources, get three different answers. ;-)
From my east valley location I get the following:
Sky Tools 2 says 16:29
Megastar 5 says 16:17
Starry Night Pro 5 says 16:22
Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stan Gorodenski" <stan_gorodenski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "AZ-Observing" <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 5:16 AM
Subject: [AZ-Observing] Polaris Transit
My sky program gives a transit time of Polaris for today, March 2, of
16h 27m Mountain Standard Time. To check if the sky program I have is
computing this correctly, would someone be able to verify this with the
program they have? I am using Guide, ver. 8. At one time the "The
Astronomical Almanac" published Polaris transit times, but they dropped
that and in its place is the transit time of the Sun. I have verified
the Guide program is computing the transit time of the Sun correctly,
assuming the Almanac time is correct. However, unless I by hand compute
the Polaris times from the Sun times (it is easy to make a mistake doing
this), I have no way of knowing if Guide is computing the correct value.
Stan
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