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Originally Posted by OzEclipse
Neither are set to default to the May 10 annular eclipse.
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You can easily set the default eclipse, location or timezone with mine by appending parameters to the URL. The two following links show how to do it:
calculator set to ASE 2013
calculator set to ASE 2013 and to compute the local circumstances in Newman in local time
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Originally Posted by OzEclipse
I know both Bill Kramer and Xavier Jubier. I'm on good terms with both - Xavier might be traveling with me in Newman so don't read anything into the link. Both calculators give equally accurate results.
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Be careful with Bill's calculator for ASE 2013 as the limb corrections appear to be wrong near the northern limit.
They are correct with my Google Maps and in Google Earth and Occult is in very good agreement.
The current public release of
Solar Eclipse Maestro has a small bug very near the limits when the limb corrections can exceed 15 seconds (already fixed in the next coming public release at the end of April) with some annulars such as ASE 2013. The bug was detected when Michael and I worked on the ASE 2013 maps.
Last EO appears to not provide any limb corrections for ASE 2013...?!
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Originally Posted by OzEclipse
In fact they cross test their software to make sure results are consistent. The only reason I prefer and link to Bill's rather than Xavier's is that you can block copy the circumstances table from Bill's output but not from Xavier's.
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Joe, if you tell me more I could certainly "fix" the behavior.
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Originally Posted by OzEclipse
When I'm exploring options, I prefer to use Xavier's Google Earth interactive tool. But if you copy the circumstances from that tool, it pastes everything perfectly except it strips the hrs off the event times and just pastes the minutes and seconds.
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I just tried and didn't have anything stripped when cutting from GE and pasting in a text editor. Please make sure you generate a new KMZ file using the
5MCSE web tool or else just click on this
link to directly generate the new KMZ file for ASE 2013.
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Originally Posted by OzEclipse
I used his interactive path map as the backdrop to my sunrise referenced map.
Bill's calc lets you paste, but it's foible is that inside the path times are in local time zone, outside, they are in UT but using a 12hr am/pm clock. No problem if you are just looking up your one location but soo confusing if you are doing a large group of locations in and out of the path and across multiple time zones the way I do.
So they all have their idiosyncrasies but they are amazing tools compared to what we had 10, 15, 20 years ago. So, I'm not complaining. These guys have put in serious hours producing these resources.
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Originally Posted by OzEclipse
These tools make our planning so easy. I just understand the weaknesses and strengths and use the best features of all of them depending on what I am doing.
Michael Zeiler just released his map set tonight
http://eclipse-maps.com/Eclipse-Maps...13_May_10.html
Michael uses special versions of Bill and Xavier's calculators that generate high spatial res plotting data for his GIS software system. He produced early versions of the Newman maps for us about a month ago but there has been a lot of behind the scenes email circulating about the Newman maps trying to sort out the path refraction corrections.
cheers
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