Re: AstronomicalData. How can be taken into account when a planet is
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- Subject: [mg115256] Re: AstronomicalData. How can be taken into account when a planet is
- From: DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 05:47:47 -0500 (EST)
You can check whether distance to the sun is greater or less than distance
to the planet, but I think the answer is that your code already takes it
into account.
Mathematica computes the 2-dimensional position of Venus in the sky; you
don't need distance - just altitude and azimuth.
Bobby
On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:49:27 -0600, Guillermo Sanchez
<guillermo.sanchez at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dear friend,
> I have represented the venus analemma for 2 next years as follow
> pos = $GeoLocation
> zone = $TimeZone
> analemmavenus = Table[{
> AstronomicalData["Venus", {"Azimuth", {2011, 1, i, 6}, pos},
> TimeZone -> zone],
> AstronomicalData["Venus", {"Altitude", {2011, 1, i, 6}, pos},
> TimeZone -> zone]}, {i, 1, 2*365.25, 10}];
> Graphics[{Orange, Point[analemmavenus]}, Frame -> True,
> FrameLabel -> {"azimut", "altitud"}]
>
> Is it taken into account when the planet is behind the Sun?
> It the answer is negative. How can be taken into account that a planet
> is behind the Sun?
> HNY
> Guillermo
>
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