Mike Black
Trying to determine accuracy of moon distance.
Using WSJTX Astronomy window, PSTRotator and https://www.mooncalc.org All 3 seem to agree pretty well on Az and El but distance is off by about 5000km comparing WSJTX to the others. As of 13:00 or so I see WSJTX 383,115 PSTRotator 388074 MoonCalc 388199 The equatorial radius of the moon is 1,738km so that doesn't explain the difference (of about 1.3%). It seems the code in wsjtx was done with certain deliberation so I'm hoping WSJTX is more accurate. But how to resolve who's right? Mike W9MDB |
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