It does account for elevation, in this case 202 meters above geoid for the location. My main concern is the calculation. I update the satellite and Sun positions every 1/4th of a second in the last 10 seconds. The error therefore could possibly be as wide as 4 arc minutes. Acceptable or not, difficult for me to judge. Denis Thomas Fly wrote: >>I got the following results from the posted data using my program. Does it > > come close to your results. I wonder if I need to improve the accuracy. > > I don't see anything in your program run that specifies the elevation above > sea-level (the Geoid, or whatever), so presumably your program is assuming > sea-level. That indeed would have a significant effect on accuracy! > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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