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Re: September Equinox computation


Subject: Re: September Equinox computation
From: Dan Allen (danallen46@XXX.XXX)
Date: Tue Sep 24 2002 - 19:40:56 EDT


On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 03:58 PM, Herbert Prinz wrote:

> I was already wondering how Dan Allen could be off by more than 3
> minutes
> using Meeus' algorithm

Just to clarify:

I used Meeus for finding the position of the sun and my own root finder
to
determine the equinox. I am not using Meeus' separate algorithm to
determine the
equinox, although maybe I should!

Dan





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