[comp.sys.amiga.applications] Distant Suns What does the moon look like in Southern skies

keith@actrix.gen.nz (Keith Stewart) (01/26/91)

I have version 3.0c.1 and have just noticed that at my latitude 41.59S
and 174.59E when I use the telescope to look at the moon the moon is
reversed left to right i.e at present when I look out the windwo there
is half a moon but the dark side is to my right. In the telescope on
Distant Suns the dark side is to the left.  Anyone got a version that
corrects this? Not that it is all too important. I love the programme.
Anyone have Mikes e-mail as I have a lockup after a repeatable sequence
of commands.

john@nereid.jpl.nasa.gov (John Veregge) (01/29/91)

In article <1991Jan26.112552.6734@actrix.gen.nz>, keith@actrix.gen.nz (Keith Stewart) writes:
|> I have version 3.0c.1 and have just noticed that at my latitude 41.59S
|> and 174.59E when I use the telescope to look at the moon the moon is
|> reversed left to right i.e at present when I look out the windwo there
|> is half a moon but the dark side is to my right. In the telescope on
|> Distant Suns the dark side is to the left.  Anyone got a version that
|> corrects this? Not that it is all too important. I love the programme.
|> Anyone have Mikes e-mail as I have a lockup after a repeatable sequence
|> of commands.

I am at work so I don't have access to my copy, BUT most astronomical
telescopes reverse the image. I think newtonians flip the image as well.
Perhaps the effect was intentional?

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