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

[Rob McCafferty]

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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