Eclipse,Oct 3rd question

hi gang,

download a great piece of software called WinEclipse from the following site . . . www.lcm.tuwien.ac.at/scs/welcome.htm

it allows you to view the path of the eclipse on a world map but also gives local circumstances when you plug in your lat/long. Additionally, you can run an animation for your location which shows the Moon crossing the Sun's disk with counters at the top displaying the percentage coverage, solar altitude, etc. -- handy if it's cloudy and you want to view a virtual eclipse . . . hope I haven't hexed the day by saying that

John

Dave,

Where are you getting this info?

And what are the figures for Maynooth?

I use MICA (Multi Year Interactive Almanac) from the US naval observatory. It produces all kinds of highly accurate and useful data which I use quite a bit writing the A&S sky diary. Its published by wilmann bell.

I'm gonna have to ask anyone who wants a dump of the data for your location to give me a latitude and longitude please.

John is quite right WinEclipse is great. Another cool piece of free software is WinOccult which allows you to calculate the circumstances of lunar occulatations from a given lat/longitude. (Just thought I'd mention that one)

Thanks guys.

A few more for the links pages seanie

A few more for the links pages seanie

Thanks for adding more to my workload, sorry, I mean, keeping me on my toes Trevor!

:lol: :lol: :lol:

It has been done!

Seanie.

You could also use the eclipse calculator at
www.ecliptomaniacs.com/resources/calculator.htm