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From: guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com (W. John Guineau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Distant Suns ( It simulated a reasl eclipse!!)
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Date: 24 Jan 91 18:45:21 GMT
References: <1991Jan16.103228.23698@actrix.gen.nz>
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In article <1991Jan16.103228.23698@actrix.gen.nz>, keith@actrix.gen.nz
(Keith Stewart) writes:
|> From: keith@actrix.gen.nz (Keith Stewart)
|> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
|> Subject: Distant Suns ( It simulated a reasl eclipse!!)
|> 
|> I own Distant Suns 3.0c.1 and today Wednesday 16th I was able to
|> view
|> here in New Zealand an annular eclipse of the Sun. Well I thought
|> Distant Suns should be able to replicate this given the right
|> latitude,
|> longitude, date and time. So tonight I put the info into the
|> programme,
|> selected the telescope option and whammo a pretty good representation
|> of
|> the eclipse I had just seen six hours ago. Well done Mike.

Could you post the setup info for your area?


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