Latitude of 0 degree put you at the equator of the Sun while longitude
may give you different view of where the planets are. It does work fine
for side views, latitude -90 to 0 to 90 varies from bottom view to side
(equatorial) to top.

Denis

Mollet-Cornelis wrote:

> HI Denis,
>
> at first, this seemed like yet another of those undocumented goodies of Guide (one should have a full-time job reading this list ;-)).
> But unfortunately , it only gives a "view from above", but I can't get any "side view". I can fill in any latitude of longitude, Guide'll always show the same view from above. Or am I missing something here?
>
> Philippe,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Denis
> To: guide-user@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 1:45 AM
> Subject: Re: [guide-user] A view from above
>
>
> Here is a easy way,
>
> first go to 'Location' menu and select 'Sun', 'Geocentric position', set
> latitude and longitude. Press 'OK'.
>
> Press 'Ctrl-F5'.
>
> A window will ask for the offset.
>
> Enter 60au or whatever distance you desire, press 'OK' and voila.
>
> you are now offset from the Sun.
>
> To return, press Ctrl-F5 and delete distance, reset to Earth, latitude
> and longitude, geocentric position.
>
> Denis
>
> Mollet-Cornelis wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > lately I've been running into a strange problem. Long ago (could have been Guide 7 or even earlier) I made soms "marks" showing the Solar System from above. I selected the Sun as location, with a latitude of N90° and an altitude of let's say 60 Astronomical Units (or even further away). Then I selected all the planets one by one, and with the animation menu I made them a trail long enough to show a complete orbit around the Sun.
> >
> > That way, I had a "view from above" of our Solar System. I used this for our astronomy-magazine: every time I loaded this "mark" and simply changed the date to get an up-to-date view. That worked for several years, and is still working flawless.
> >
> > Now, for a new project, I wanted to have a side-view of the Solar System. So I tried to use the same settings, but changing the latitude to 0 or 10°. And that just doesn't work: altitude automatically falls back tot meters instead of Astronomical Units (which of course makes quit a difference ;-)).
> >
> > Now, of course I know this is far behind the whole concept of Guide, but it was a nice feature to have for me, so I was wondering if there was some kind of work-around for this? I know one can do this with RedShift for example, but as I'm used to Guide and it's features...
> > So basically, I need to have a view from above of the orbits of the planets, minor planets if possible, and maybe some detailed views of let's say the orbits of the Jupiter-moons. Any suggestions??
> >
> > ths,
> > Philippe
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