I’ve been doing some checking and it seems the solar noon tag is wrong. For the past several months its always landed somewhere around 11:46 to 11:56 and some days it goes up, others it goes down. When I do a search for todays solar noon for my Lon/Lat it says it should be 12:22:55 for Jan 16th, my tag says 11:52am. Could you look at that tag sometime when you have time Brian? Thanks
Note that solar noon is also called Sun Transit and that is showing correctly in the moondetail2.gif graphic on your site. Where is the solar noon tag being used?
Brians latest update (N build 26)seems to have fixed the solar noon tag for me. It was displaying 11:51 ± 5 mins every day and now it’s very close to the calculated solar noon I’ve found on the web. Should work well now.
Sorry guys, I was wrong, after more testing, its not right. It’s changing throughout the day and it should be a fixed reading for each day. I let Brian know.
U.S. Naval Observatory
Astronomical Applications Department
Sun and Moon Data for One Day
The following information is provided for Stronghurst, Henderson County, Illinois (longitude W90.9, latitude N40.7):
Tuesday
21 April 2009 Central Daylight Time
SUN
Begin civil twilight 5:47 a.m.
Sunrise 6:16 a.m.
Sun transit 1:02 p.m.
Sunset 7:50 p.m.
End civil twilight 8:19 p.m.
MOON
Moonset 3:18 p.m. on preceding day
Moonrise 4:14 a.m.
Moon transit 10:13 a.m.
Moonset 4:22 p.m.
Moonrise 4:37 a.m. on following day
Phase of the Moon on 21 April: waning crescent with 14% of the Moon’s visible disk illuminated.
New Moon on 24 April 2009 at 10:23 p.m. Central Daylight Time.
Brian changed the zip file again and it seems to be working now, Mine has stayed at the same time all day and it’s within a minute or two of the values on the lookup websites. Download the latest zip update and try it.