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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
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