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Lat/Long and timekeeping system for Mars
On Sat, 08 Dec 2018 18:48:12 -0500, Davoud wrote:
Paul Schlyter: It's an interesting fact that modern professional astronomers rarely know the constellations. They don't need to since they just dial in the coordinates of the object they want to observe with their big GOTO telescopes. Or they may not even observe themselves, professional observers observe for them. That's rational for optimizing the use of available observing time of course, but it certainly make you lose contact with the skies. Right. But contact with the skies is a luxury that amateurs can enjoy. The professional has work to do. Except that in my club we have a number of professionals who are also amateur astronomers (STSCI, APL, Goddard are all nearby). For the most part they don't get anywhere near a telescope in the professional lives, but they do commune with the skies at our star parties. It's like if a professional geographer didn't know where Switzerland or China or USA were situated without looking them up on a map, and if he wanted to go there, he just dialed in the geographical coordinates on the GPS of his self-driving car or self-flying plane and then let it take him there. According to a friend of mine who is a military pilot, what the traveling geographer really does in the modern era is board a commercial flight where a trained pilot dials in the geographical coordinates on the GPS of his (largely) self-flying airliner and let it take him where he wants to go. Barring a Lion Air-type incident, that is. That's why air travel sometimes is considered to not be "real travel". If you travel on the surface instead, you get to see much more of the area you travel through. But of course surface travel takes much more time, and that's time today's rushed people think they don't have. |
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Lat/Long and timekeeping system for Mars
On Sat, 08 Dec 2018 15:36:16 -0700, Chris L Peterson
wrote: On Sat, 08 Dec 2018 23:03:38 +0100, Paul Schlyter wrote: A similar calendar on Jupiter would have to have about 300 months of about 30 days each. Perhaps we should refrain from trying to name these months and just number them instead? Or maybe use something like stardates. A year with as many decimal places as make sense given the length of that year. Are you suggesting that the day-night cycle should be ignored? |
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Lat/Long and timekeeping system for Mars
As the only person here who affirms that the planet turns 365 1/4 rotations for 1 orbital circuit based on the parent observation that after four cycles of 365 days, the first annual appearance of a star skips a first annual appearance by one day.
A hypothetical 365 3/4 rotations would create an alternative calendar framework based on 3 years or 366 rotations and 1 year of 365 rotations at the end of the 4th cycle thereby keeping days fixed to the annual milestones of Solstices and Equinoxes. The system for Mars will have the same timekeeping principles adjusted to the orbital and daily traits of Mars which fit inside a calendar framework. Of course all this may die but experience tells me that information eventually makes it into circulation albeit in a way that people struggle with concepts. I suppose the background scenery of other contributions makes it appear that the writers have a handle on astronomy and timekeeping but the dominance of a secondary system like RA/Dec framework dictates otherwise. |
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Lat/Long and timekeeping system for Mars
On Sun, 09 Dec 2018 21:35:27 +0100, Paul Schlyter
wrote: On Sat, 08 Dec 2018 15:36:16 -0700, Chris L Peterson wrote: On Sat, 08 Dec 2018 23:03:38 +0100, Paul Schlyter wrote: A similar calendar on Jupiter would have to have about 300 months of about 30 days each. Perhaps we should refrain from trying to name these months and just number them instead? Or maybe use something like stardates. A year with as many decimal places as make sense given the length of that year. Are you suggesting that the day-night cycle should be ignored? No. But you could eliminate months by simply having a fractional year and a day count. That's akin to numbered months. |
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On Sun, 09 Dec 2018 21:27:00 +0100, Paul Schlyter
wrote: Even traveling in undeveloped countries in remote regions, the most reliable way of planning and executing travel is using a map app and a GPS. True, and that includes hiking. However you must still decide which route you want to take, you cannot just "point yourself" to the destination. That's generally true even for air traffic. |
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On Sunday, December 9, 2018 at 11:06:59 AM UTC-7, Davoud wrote:
I wonder if Quadibloc knows that Machu Picchu is 9km from a rail station and that, if further help is needed, one can look for the lodge and the Machu Picchu snack bar!? Well, I did realize it was a tourist destination. But it doesn't have its own airport. I thought one would have to go at least part of the way by picturesque means such as riding on a donkey. As for Macizo del Auyán-tepui, nobody goes there anymore. Too crowded. I hope that old joke isn't the only way in which you are joking. It is an ecologically sensitive area, and thus I would have expected the local authorities to be protecting it. Although in Venezuela, the government has other concerns at the moment. John Savard |
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On Sun, 09 Dec 2018 15:15:36 -0700, Chris L Peterson
wrote: A similar calendar on Jupiter would have to have about 300 months of about 30 days each. Perhaps we should refrain from trying to name these months and just number them instead? Or maybe use something like stardates. A year with as many decimal places as make sense given the length of that year. Are you suggesting that the day-night cycle should be ignored? No. But you could eliminate months by simply having a fractional year and a day count. That's akin to numbered months. The months on Jupiter would have to be short anyway, from 2 to 16 Earth days, depending on which of the four big moons you'd like to sync it with. |
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On Sun, 09 Dec 2018 15:16:47 -0700, Chris L Peterson
wrote: On Sun, 09 Dec 2018 21:27:00 +0100, Paul Schlyter wrote: Even traveling in undeveloped countries in remote regions, the most reliable way of planning and executing travel is using a map app and a GPS. True, and that includes hiking. However you must still decide which route you want to take, you cannot just "point yourself" to the destination. That's generally true even for air traffic. True. To avoid war zones, tropical cyclones and the like. Someone who points his Goto telescope only must avoid the Earth. And perhaps also the Sun during daytime. |
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Lat/Long and timekeeping system for Mars
On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 07:25:35 +0100, Paul Schlyter
wrote: On Sun, 09 Dec 2018 15:15:36 -0700, Chris L Peterson wrote: A similar calendar on Jupiter would have to have about 300 months of about 30 days each. Perhaps we should refrain from trying to name these months and just number them instead? Or maybe use something like stardates. A year with as many decimal places as make sense given the length of that year. Are you suggesting that the day-night cycle should be ignored? No. But you could eliminate months by simply having a fractional year and a day count. That's akin to numbered months. The months on Jupiter would have to be short anyway, from 2 to 16 Earth days, depending on which of the four big moons you'd like to sync it with. Maybe better to keep them based on the colonists' menstrual cycles... |
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On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 08:03:14 -0700, Chris L Peterson
wrote: The months on Jupiter would have to be short anyway, from 2 to 16 Earth days, depending on which of the four big moons you'd like to sync it with. Maybe better to keep them based on the colonists' menstrual cycles... Yes. Otherwise the colonists on Mars would have really short months. Imagine three months per day! That's what you would get by letting Phobos define the months... |
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