Subject: Re: Right ascension greater than 24
From: "Alfred A. Aburto Jr." <aaburto@pacbell.net>
Date: 04/03/2004, 16:26
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti,sci.astro.seti

"Martin G. Diehl" <mdiehl@nac.net> wrote in message
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Richard wrote:

I have been receiving lots of them for a long time. The new
ver. of SetiSpy should show them.

With 16 processors in my SETI farm, it's more of a SETIqueue
issue for me.

The > 24 hour issue is equivalent to having an angle greater than
360 degrees. 373 degrees is the same as 13 degrees. 27 hours
RA is the same as 3 hours RA.

(but it could be a real error/bug too ... one hopes not though ...)


OTOH, if we are all seeing them, I'll not be concerned.

But if positions don't plot right then you might want to add
a line of code (just in case):

if RA > 24.0 then RA = RA - 24.0
if RA <   0.0 then RA = RA + 24.0

Just some thoughts Martin,
Al


"Martin G. Diehl" <mdiehl@nac.net> wrote in message
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Greetings,

For the last week (or so), I have been seeing work units
with right ascension greater than 24.  Needless to say,
they don't display on the sky maps shown by either
SETIqueue or SETIspy.

What's going on?  Any ideas?

Here is the list of WU's that my systems are currently
processing ...

Time recorded           Ra, Dec       AR

[snip]

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