Transiting Sun exact conjunct Sirius each year.
Re: Transiting Sun exact conjunct Sirius each year.
Will do Jim on copying user files before installing SF 9. Thanks.
Re: Transiting Sun exact conjunct Sirius each year.
Jim, I received update of SF 9 last week, and with the help of my friend we went over your instruction for running exact transits to fixed stars (got it), and now can do lots of mundane research.
I ran in SF 9 the exact transit of Sun to Sirius, and calculated for New York, July 5, 1929, a time of 11:43:22 AM EDT. Will you double check with your SF Version and see if you get the same time of 11:43:22 AM. Thanks
I ran in SF 9 the exact transit of Sun to Sirius, and calculated for New York, July 5, 1929, a time of 11:43:22 AM EDT. Will you double check with your SF Version and see if you get the same time of 11:43:22 AM. Thanks
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Re: Transiting Sun exact conjunct Sirius each year.
Of course. The first thing I notice is that, since Sirius is in Gemini, this can't occur in January but will always be in early July (but, since it's July 5), that was probably a typo.
On July 5, 1929, Sirius was at 19°20'51" Gemini. Sun conjoined this at 11:43:19 AM EDT, within 3 seconds of what you calculated..The 3 seconds could be a difference of the two SF versions or a difference in our working methods (I forget how I suggested you calculate this). Since Sun moves 0°00'01" in 25 seconds of time, I'm not too worried about a 3 second difference.
But, for the record, here's what I did: First, I calculated a chart for noon on July 5, 1929 to get the longitude of Sirius as 19°20'51" Gemini. Then, I calculated a solar return for Sun at that longitude. Then I checked, on the resulting chart, that Sun and Sirius were the same second of longitude.
You got it! (And it's a stunningly malefic chart for the economy.)
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Re: Transiting Sun exact conjunct Sirius each year.
Ah, I see how you got 10:43:22. I used Dynamic Events to calculate a transit-to-transit aspect of Sun to Sirius for 1929 (Sun only under Transits, Sirius only under User, starting date 1/1/29 for one year). I get 11:43:22 instead of 11:43:19.
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Sorry Jim, yes I meant to write July 5th instead of Jan 5th. Yes, I have got it , and understand how we each got our 3 second difference.
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I think we can live with a 0°01' difference on the angles from two different ways of calculating this
On July 5, 1929, Sun moved 0°57'13" in one day, or 3,433". That means that in 0:00:03 of time (3/86,400 of the day, since there are 86,400 seconds of time in the day), Sun moves 0.1" of arc.
On July 5, 1929, Sun moved 0°57'13" in one day, or 3,433". That means that in 0:00:03 of time (3/86,400 of the day, since there are 86,400 seconds of time in the day), Sun moves 0.1" of arc.
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