Hi Diallists,
I think Gianni's excellent postings show the cause of our dilemma on the EoT
sign convention.
As traditional diallists, should we take the LAT (solar) time as the basic
value, and add EoT to it to give the artificial Mean Time?
Or, as good scientists, should we adopt the astrono
Hello John,
You wrote re E.O.T. sign conventions:
>I don't think we will ever convince everyone to
>adopt a single convention. Even if we did, we
>are stuck with a wide historical literature
>which is fairly evenly split between the two
>possibilities.
I think that about sums up the E.O.T.
Hi all,
John Davis wrote:
> As traditional diallists, should we take the LAT (solar) time as the basic
> value, and add EoT to it to give the artificial Mean Time?
>
> Or, as good scientists, should we adopt the astronomers' convention and
> take universal Mean Time as the basic value and add E
Hi Andrew,
You ask:
>... and, on the Equator at the Equinox, does the Sun go
>across the sky from
>left to right, or right to left?
I'm not sure, but I think it is the same way
that I was instructed to coil nautical lines.
I.e.: "With the sun, dammit!"
Bill
( :-}>
Fellow Shadow Watchers,
Because I was already in the USA on my way to stay
with Mac and Claire Oglesby I actually made it to the NASS Conference and
even completed a planned trip onwards to Vancouver via Minneapolis and
Calgary with only one cancelled/re-scheduled flight
Bill Maddux wrote:
>I think that about sums up the E.O.T. matter.
>
>Next question for us to consider: Should we begin
>eating our breakfast soft-boiled eggs from the big
>end, or from the small end?
>
Does it matter as long as you're Swift? ;-)
Tony (Oh no!... he's back!) Moss.
