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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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0001519 | SkyChart | 1-Software | public | 16-02-29 01:37 | 16-02-29 18:48 |
Reporter | Sasa | Assigned To | Patrick Chevalley | ||
Priority | normal | Severity | major | Reproducibility | always |
Status | resolved | Resolution | won't fix | ||
Platform | Linux 64-bit | OS | Kubuntu | OS Version | 14.04 |
Product Version | 3.11 SVN | ||||
Summary | 0001519: Setting longitude from observatiry seems to be wrong | ||||
Description | If set observer longitude from observatory and it is East, the value become negative double, meaning it is West. Looking at the combobox, first value is West, second is East, however, in code it changes the sign opposite: procedure Tf_config_observatory.longdegChange(Sender: TObject); begin if LockChange then exit; if obslock then exit; if frac(longdeg.Value)>0 then csc.ObsLongitude:=longdeg.value else csc.ObsLongitude:=longdeg.value+longmin.value/60+longsec.value/3600; if long.Itemindex>0 then csc.ObsLongitude:=-csc.ObsLongitude; ShowObsCoord; SetObsPos; CenterObs; end; Solution is to change order in combobox and set default index value to 0, or to change in code long.Itemindex=0. However, order in combobox for latitude is correct (North - South), then lat.Itemindex>0 is correct... However, it seems that somewhere else in code, long is negated, thus all calculations are correct. See as well longutude values in skychart.ini - it is negative. | ||||
Steps To Reproduce | 1. Set date of solar eclipse in 1999-08-11 13:04 (CEST) 2. Set coordinate for greatest eclipse at lat 45 01' N and long 24 03' E 3. Look at the chart - Sun seems to be perfectly covered by Moon 4. Look at skychart.ini it show negative value for longitude. | ||||
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Correct location from NASA paper is: lat 45 04' N and long 24 17' E Anyway, regarding the issue, that is irrelevant. The problem is spotted when I intended to use csc.ObsLatitude and csc.ObsLongitude values for xplanet call. |
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Longitude sign is just a convention and traditionally the astronomer where using the positive west convention, maybe because the convention used for the other planets is to have the central meridian value increasing with time. Positive west convention is used in Meeus book and so was the earlier version of CdC. Now the ObsLongitude value is used more than 100 time in the program and I am not willing to change the sign as this internal value is never visible by the user. |
Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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16-02-29 01:37 | Sasa | New Issue | |
16-02-29 01:53 | Sasa | Note Added: 0003325 | |
16-02-29 02:00 | Sasa | Note Edited: 0003325 | |
16-02-29 02:01 | Sasa | Note Edited: 0003325 | |
16-02-29 02:02 | Sasa | Note Edited: 0003325 | |
16-02-29 02:05 | Sasa | Note Edited: 0003325 | |
16-02-29 02:06 | Sasa | Note Edited: 0003325 | |
16-02-29 18:48 | Patrick Chevalley | Note Added: 0003327 | |
16-02-29 18:48 | Patrick Chevalley | Assigned To | => Patrick Chevalley |
16-02-29 18:48 | Patrick Chevalley | Status | new => resolved |
16-02-29 18:48 | Patrick Chevalley | Resolution | open => won't fix |