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Geek Culture / Looking for a good book on stuff like sunrise/set and high/low tide and moon phases.

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HowDo
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Posted: 17th Sep 2008 22:45
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Hi All,

Anyone come across a book with above in and it shows how to calculate it all, as finding this stuff with google is like trying to find question for answer 42.

Just got this book astronomy demystified but now I have it, its left out the mathematical bits

or a link, some links you may give I may have all ready been there but who knows it might be a part I did not look in.

it so I can write some code myself to work in my weather station project.


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Posted: 18th Sep 2008 04:35 Edited at: 18th Sep 2008 07:03
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Not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for (are you doing it in Dark basic?)

What i did for a game i am writing (i have a day/night w/ sun so far)

Make a skysphere, attach a smaller object to it (the sun) attach a light sourse to the sun, and make it rotate.

you can also remove the z depth from the whole thing so it looks infinitley big.

What i was planning to do later is add a few more smaller sky-spheres w transparent textures (they will be the different cloud layers.

If this is what you are looking for

i attached a screenshot of my thing here, looks pretty nice, I like to play around with colors and different lighting techniques, its really cool

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sorry for the bmp and not be able to view the pic i am still very bad at this uploading pictures to the forum thing

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Posted: 18th Sep 2008 08:04
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doing this DBPro and is just going to been showing the times plus a small graphic stating what the time is for.

[hint] change your picture to .jpg then they won't be so big.

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Posted: 18th Sep 2008 08:56
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oh i get it like a series of 2d pictures showing progress + time with every picture right?

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got in one, so if you seen something in a book or web site give it link or plug.

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HowDo,

Have you tried typing in "Sunrise equation" or "Orbit of the Moon" into Wikipedia's search facility? I have just tried this, and it seems to come up with quite a bit of data which could be useful.
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That's a few good ones, not been thinking on thoses lines, cheers.

It's knowing the keywords that make the search engines work right.

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Had to use this equation for a uni coursework a while back - http://www.voidware.com/moon_phase.htm.

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cheers RalphY , turns out thats the one I am using for moon phases, now it just finding one for sun rise and tide.

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