RE: [guide-user] Groupings ETB-files

Arturo R Montesinos Dec 9, 2000

> But you have to check your webpage, the links for the grouping files
> DE406C5P.ETB, DE406C4P.ETB and DE406C3P.ETB are leading all to
> the same file of DE406OP1.ETB.

Oops! Sorry about that... what a dumb copy/paste mistake! :-(

> Can you sort it by year, from BC 3000 to AD 3000, as you have done
> with "Mutual Planetary Occultations"?
> This would make it easier.

I sorted it by separation because the really interesting thing, at
least for me, was the ranking of "tightnesses" (when you have one
grouping, you can easily tell when the last one that was even tighter
was by scanning up the list)...

...but now I just made a version sorted by date, and I admit that it
DOES look much more natural! O:-) Plus you can always save it to a
file from within Guide and then sort on separation with a text
editor if that's what you want. The reverse process couldn't be
done easily because of the date format.

I have also extended the maximum separations for 5-planet groupings
from 20 to 30 degrees, for 4-planet groupings from 8 to 10 degrees,
and for 3-planet groupings from 1 to 2 degrees. The new files are,
then:

* Groupings of the five naked-eye planets within 30 degrees.

* Grouping of four out of five naked-eye planets within 10 degrees.

* Groupings of three out of five naked-eye planets within 2 degrees.


...and this time I DID test the links O:-) O:-) O:-D

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Arturo R Montesinos
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Madrid, Spain