[meteorite-list] Mars software, clock maths HELP.

From: Rob McCafferty <rob_mccafferty_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Sep 30 18:40:25 2006
Message-ID: <20060930224023.70779.qmail_at_web50912.mail.yahoo.com>

Thanks for the link Kevin. Nice site

I do indeed see an astronaut. I met him 3 months back
in Glasgow. Great bloke. Most interesting question I
thought of to ask him was "how do you keep your
glasses on in space?" The answer is rather banal. The
guy is only 3 months younger than my dad (wears it
better though)
I did rather better when speaking with Bjarni
Tryggvasson

Rob McC

--- Kevin Forbes <vk3ukf_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> Hello people,
>
> if you have an interest in the Mars Exploration
> Rovers, please have a look
> at the Merdat software
>
> screen shots.
>
>
> Click the link below, then click the MERDAT link.
>
> http://www.qsl.net/vk3ukf/
>
> if you see an astronaut then my website is being
> nice,
>
> if you see a blue sun, then click refresh or enter
> the URL
> http://www.qsl.net/vk3ukf/ only, no
>
> index.html on the end, for some reason you got the
> server cache, and an old
> index page.
>
> What do I need help with, the Mars clock in my
> software is plain old
> daytime, not solar time as
>
> displayed on the NASA website. I would like some
> help in translating the
> algorithm for Mars solar
>
> time into code so the program matches NASA.
>
> Too much greek and triangles for me to understand,
> the calculation for
> Mars24 can be found at
>
> this URL.
>
>
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/help/algorithm.html
>
> I need someone to hold my hand here.
>
> If there is anyone out there disciplined in
> mathematics, I'd love your
> assistance.
>
> I know Sterling K. Webb is good at this. Hi
> Sterling.
>
> Please send general emails to the list, not me. Lest
> you end up in my JUNK
> folder.
> I am sending this email to two lists
> meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com and
>
> MarsSocietyVictoria_at_yahoogroups.com and fear I may
> be swamped, probably not,
> but, just being
>
> careful.
>
>
>
> Email me personally if you want a copy of the beta
> software as it now
> stands, ONLY if you think you can assist with the
> algorithm or feedback. I
> need to have it viewed on screens with a resolution
> bigger than 1280 x 1024.
> (my monitor is 800 x 600 to 1280 x 1024) The
> software looks OK at these
> resolutions.
>
> I plan to include another zipped library of images
> apart from the two below,
> I will make a best of collection at a later time.
> The zip of MER images of the Martian moons taken at
> night, Night.zip, is
> uploading now, please be patient. It'll be available
> in a few hours, yeh,
> I'm dial up. Clouds.zip has been uploaded and is
> available.
>
> Thanks folks.
>
> (p.s. if something is broken in all this, do let me
> know, and I'll fix it)
>
> Kevin Forbes, VK3UKF.
>
>
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Received on Sat 30 Sep 2006 06:40:23 PM PDT