Re: [guide-user] OT: program for displaying hour angle

Bill J Gray Jul 16, 2009

Hi Bernd,

I see one very small fix in the latest 'in-testing' update
didn't make it onto the 'new.htm' page. That is a method for
resetting Guide to show hour angle in any of the various forms
that might be required: from 0h to 24h versus -12h to +12h,
and "reversed" for southern hemisphere operations with a scope
with northern hemisphere-oriented setting circles.

I don't think too many people will be playing around with this,
so the only control right now involves editing 'startup.mar' and
tweaking a line in it, as described here:

http://www.projectpluto.com/mar_fmt.htm#azimuth_convention

I'd added the capability to switch between the 0h-24h convention
and the +/-12h convention long ago, but the 'wrong hemisphere'
switch is new.

-- Bill