time of day wrong in BCE i.e. -1446BC

[solitary traveler]

If I put in -1446BC, looking for specific star cluster, the time of day is off and I have to advance the clock to around midnight to get the sun to do down.

[Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab)]

Is the location set to your current location, or is it in another time zone? You have to compensate for such differences manually.

Also, please have in mind that Stellarium uses astronomical year numbering, so year -1446 is actually 1447BC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_year_numbering

And do mind that Stellarium is not very suitable for archaeoastronomy or celestial navigation, due to a number of reasons, including but not limited to: the way celestial objects are rendered, limitations of rounding and precision in floating point operations, lack of simulation of atmospheric refraction, etc.

[Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab)]

Waiting for an answer from solitary traveler. Otherwise, it's a duplicate of a entry in the wish list.

[solitary traveler (putzer1)]

Thanks for the help Bogdan. I think it's closer in time when I adjust
location. Thanks again.
Paul

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bogdan Marinov" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 4:15 PM
Subject: [Bug 545368] Re: time of day wrong in BCE i.e. -1446BC

Is the location set to your current location, or is it in another time
zone? You have to compensate for such differences manually.

Also, please have in mind that Stellarium uses astronomical year numbering,
so year -1446 is actually 1447BC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_year_numbering

And do mind that Stellarium is not very suitable for archaeoastronomy or
celestial navigation, due to a number of reasons, including but not
limited to: the way celestial objects are rendered, limitations of
rounding and precision in floating point operations, lack of simulation
of atmospheric refraction, etc.

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time of day wrong in BCE i.e. -1446BC
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If I put in -1446BC, looking for specific star cluster, the time of day is
off and I have to advance the clock to around midnight to get the sun to do
down.

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