From: Dan Bright <ufo.nul>
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 23:10:19 -0000
Fwd Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 09:05:13 -0500
Subject: Re: Whittlesea Australia UFO Photograph - Bright


On 2 Feb 2004 at 16:56, UFO UpDates - Toronto wrote:

>From: Larry Hatch <larryhatch.nul>
>To: ufoupdates.nul
>Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 13:26:44 -0800
>Subject: Re: Whittlesea Australia UFO Photograph

>The orientation of the camera seems paramount. What precise
>direction was the camera facing when the shot was taken?

The photographer states that he was taking shots facing "east
and west" (Hearldsun: http://tinyurl.com/39jy4)

>I calculated something like a 300 degree Azimuth, and ran the
>US Navy site algorithm to get a more accurate 290 degrees. This
>places the sun in the Western skies, as one might expect unless
>the Earth reversed its spin.  Any chance there was an error in
>the numbers above?

Yes. I double checked my figures earlier and the air turned blue
when I realised my error. I just sent the corrections prior to
reading your post. Doh!!

>The table produced is in even 10-minute increments, thus the
>approximate figures for 14:52 hours local time.

There is a facility to changing that to 1-min increments, which
is how I got my final figures (almost the same as yours: Azm
287.6, Alt: 55.1). This is for 13:52 local time, and assumes
that the  photographer's statement of "about 2pm" was correct
(meaning the EXIF embedded data is one hour fast. This has
nothing to do with daylight saving time as I mistakenly alluded
to in a previous post -- when you're having one of those
days...!

If, however, the EXIF data was correct (and the photographer was
wrong in his statement), then local time would be 14:52
Azm=275.6 and Alt=43.4)

>I'm at a loss here. Can somebody in the Melbourne area get a
>few important data points for us?

I've emailed a contact of mine in Australia and am awaiting his
response. I'll let you know if he's willing to take a day trip
out there.

Best to all,

--
Dan Bright
www.theunexplained.info