FrankB
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Reged: 08/03/05
Posts: 113
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If you place the sun high above the surface, the whole point of this layer is lost. It is ment to show which spot on the surface the sun is currently directly above. With just a small change of the suns altitude this spot will change with your viewing angle, and at 36,000 km it will be totally useless. It will look more realistic, but the purpose of the layer is lost.
Edit: I can se that the altitude has been changed in the updated placemark. Too bad, I thougt it was a great feature. Totally useless now.
Edited by FrankB (11/16/05 12:53 PM)
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sparqi
Tourist
Reged: 07/30/05
Posts: 8
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I tried setting height to 0m. This works until the next update, then it reverts to a defined height.
One idea I had was to draw a connecting line to ground. This also gets reset on update.
...dtw
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FrankB
Tourist
Reged: 08/03/05
Posts: 113
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I just noticed that you can change the height in the parameter of the call to the php-file: Select Edit and set HEIGHT=0 in the URL.
Thanks a lot for making it controllable this way.
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PaulBuxton
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Reged: 07/25/05
Posts: 16
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No worries.
I personally prefer it at ground level, but quite a few people had asked for the height to be adjustable. So I thought I would add the functionality.
Paul.
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PaulBuxton
Tourist
Reged: 07/25/05
Posts: 16
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If you edit the height parameter the it should be ok.
E.g.
Change
http://www.gelp.net\files\sun.php?ISKML=1&HEIGHT=2000000
to
http://www.gelp.net\files\sun.php?ISKML=1&HEIGHT=0
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CyBeR7
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Reged: 08/21/05
Posts: 62
Loc: Riachos, Portugal
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Hi! I don't know what happened because i'm using this link http://www.gelp.net\files\sun.php?ISKML=1&HEIGHT=2000000 and my sun just felt down to ground level a couple of days ago. Is this problem occourring to others too?
answer plz. Great app and it's a pitty that its not running well 
2006/01/19 - Thanks for fixing the file 
Edited by CyBeR7 (01/18/06 04:28 PM)
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sunposition
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Reged: 01/18/06
Posts: 21
Loc: Fuengirola, Malaga, Spain
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SunPosition Online, from sunposition.net, 100% spot on. Uses Magnetic declination so if you select 'True north' the calculations are ajusted for compasses, you can also select from a 'True north' calculation. To get access to all 48,000 odd locations you will need to sign up, non members get 'limited' access to just over 8,000 locations. Sun's azimuth, altitude, and shadow factor calculated at 15 minute intervals 'Members' for your date or date range, you even get a graph. Members can calculate for their own latitude and longitude locations, save locations to their favourites menu for quick access. The application makes calculations for the magnetic declination for every location. There is no easier or more an accurate way of getting these calculations 'as far as I know or can find' than SunPosition by http://sunposition.net/
Hope this helps 
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SunPosition - Calculate the sun's position online.
Over 48,000 preset locations.
Web: http://www.sunposition.net
Edited by sunposition (05/01/06 07:48 AM)
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FrankB
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Reged: 08/03/05
Posts: 113
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Please fix it.
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norbre
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Reged: 05/05/07
Posts: 1
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it is not working anymore.. somebody knows a working version of Solar Calculation in Google Earth?
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AVERMAN
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Reged: 04/24/07
Posts: 28
Loc: Sydney, Australia
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This thing looks cool. Pity it doesnt work no more.
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