who moved the moon?

"merecat" wrote in message
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Am I being really stupid? but on my copy of Starry night pro the moon seem
to be in the wrong place. the software is telling me it should be about 11
degrees behind where it actually is. The result is that last night, Mars
was
on the wrong side!
How strange. At 16.00 BST today Starry night is telling me that the moon
is
at 72 degrees and 15 degrees altitude. My eyes say its almost due East at
rather more than 15 degrees altitude
Chances are that its me and not any astronomical anomaly but can any kind
person explain?

Merecat



Have you checked time and DATE on your puter? SN will pick up PC details on
launching.

Laurence

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:01:46 -0000, "merecat"
wrote:

Am I being really stupid? but on my copy of Starry night pro the moon seem
to be in the wrong place. the software is telling me it should be about 11
degrees behind where it actually is. The result is that last night, Mars was
on the wrong side!

Still got your 'puter set to BST by any chance?

Jim

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:01:46 -0000, in uk.sci.astronomy , "merecat"
wrote:

Am I being really stupid? but on my copy of Starry night pro the moon seem
to be in the wrong place. the software is telling me it should be about 11
degrees behind where it actually is. The result is that last night, Mars was
on the wrong side!
How strange. At 16.00 BST today Starry night is telling me that the moon is
at 72 degrees and 15 degrees altitude. My eyes say its almost due East at
rather more than 15 degrees altitude
Chances are that its me and not any astronomical anomaly but can any kind
person explain?

Your computer clock wrong?
Your location set wrong in Starry Night? ("go-set home location")


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merecat wrote:
Am I being really stupid? but on my copy of Starry night pro the moon
seem to be in the wrong place. the software is telling me it should
be about 11 degrees behind where it actually is. The result is that
last night, Mars was on the wrong side!
How strange. At 16.00 BST today Starry night is telling me that the
moon is at 72 degrees and 15 degrees altitude. My eyes say its almost
due East at rather more than 15 degrees altitude
Chances are that its me and not any astronomical anomaly but can any
kind person explain?

Merecat, have you got your computer clock set correctly on GMT and
have the correct time zone/ location on the program?


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Thanks for the replies. Both date and time are set correctly, and well
spotted, I am running at GMT and not BST. However checking with the laptop
which is running the same program, the difference is -18 degrees AZ and + 8
degrees in altitude. So I assume there is some kind of time discrepancy
somewhere as the location is quite accurate. I am working on a theory that
somehow its read the routers default time setting which is 1/1/1970

Ummmm.... are they?

The headers in your posting to the newsgroup suggest it was posted at
23.26 UT today.

I might be old and confused, but it's only just gone 15.00 UTC on my clocks...

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Am I being really stupid? but on my copy of Starry night pro the moon seem
to be in the wrong place. the software is telling me it should be about 11
degrees behind where it actually is. The result is that last night, Mars was
on the wrong side!
How strange. At 16.00 BST today Starry night is telling me that the moon is
at 72 degrees and 15 degrees altitude. My eyes say its almost due East at
rather more than 15 degrees altitude
Chances are that its me and not any astronomical anomaly but can any kind
person explain?

Merecat

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:05:28 GMT, Helen Deborah Vecht
wrote:

Ummmm.... are they?

The headers in your posting to the newsgroup suggest it was posted at
23.26 UT today.

I might be old and confused, but it's only just gone 15.00 UTC on my clocks...


Good spot, from the original header his computer is clearly 1 day
fast!

Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:01:46 -0000
Lines: 13
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180
X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180
Message-ID:
X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.106.212.182
NNTP-Posting-Host: mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com
X-Trace: 12 Dec 2005 15:59:40 GMT, mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com

The original post was made around 16:00 on the 12th, confirmed by the
X-Trace header; however the Date field says 16:01 on the 13th.

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:16:28 -0000, in uk.sci.astronomy , "merecat"
wrote:

Thanks for the replies. Both date and time are set correctly, and well
spotted, I am running at GMT and not BST.

You apparently posted this message at 23:16 tonight. Thats some three
hours in the future from when I'm reading it, and at least eight from
when you posted it. Unless you're in Asia?
Methinks your computer time isn't quite what you think it is...


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Thanks for the replies. Both date and time are set correctly, and well
spotted, I am running at GMT and not BST. However checking with the laptop
which is running the same program, the difference is -18 degrees AZ and + 8
degrees in altitude. So I assume there is some kind of time discrepancy
somewhere as the location is quite accurate. I am working on a theory that
somehow its read the routers default time setting which is 1/1/1970

Merecat
"Jim Attfield" jamesatattfielddotcodotuk@ wrote in message
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On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:01:46 -0000, "merecat"
wrote:

Am I being really stupid? but on my copy of Starry night pro the moon seem
to be in the wrong place. the software is telling me it should be about 11
degrees behind where it actually is. The result is that last night, Mars
was
on the wrong side!

Still got your 'puter set to BST by any chance?

Jim

Thanks Mark.
The problem was indeed with the RTC in the PC. All is now reset and the moon
has been moved to its correct location in the sky.
I should have spotted it earlier

Merecat


Mark McIntyre" wrote in message
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On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:16:28 -0000, in uk.sci.astronomy , "merecat"
wrote:

Thanks for the replies. Both date and time are set correctly, and well
spotted, I am running at GMT and not BST.

You apparently posted this message at 23:16 tonight. Thats some three
hours in the future from when I'm reading it, and at least eight from
when you posted it. Unless you're in Asia?
Methinks your computer time isn't quite what you think it is...


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