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Pablo de Vicente authored
- 34 arcmin = 0.5667 degrees. This value changes if the observer is above the horizon, or if the weather conditions change. For the sun we have to add half the angular sie of the body, since the sunset is the time the upper limb of the sun disappears below the horizon, and dawn, when the upper part of the limb appears over the horizon. The angular size of the sun = angular size of the moon = 31' 59''. So for the sun the correction is = -34 - 16 = 50 arcmin = -0.8333 This same correction should be applied to the Moon however parallax is important here. Meeus states that the correction should be 0.7275 P - 34 arcmin, where P is the moon's horizontal parallax. He proposes a mean value of +0.125 degrees if no great accuracy is needed. Changed "if" condition, because I had exchanged the Sun and the stellar cases and added a bigger comment explaining why we use these values. svn path=/branches/KDE_3_1_BRANCH/kdeedu/kstars/; revision=247999
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