Syntrack help

[jasonp]

My Longitide is -0.568666

How do i input that on the syntrek

Silly question but been trying for a while now lol

Thanks

[Cornelius Varley]

Do you mean Synscan? The Syntrek handset doesn't need this info. For the Synscan handset input your longitude as 000 34 W.

Peter

[jasonp]

Yes synscan sorry

Having a nightmare its putting things no where near

I assume i use daylight saving ?

Why 000 34 Im confused

Cheers

[Cornelius Varley]

DST should set to off until BST starts at the end of March. The handset requires the latitude and longitude in the format of degrees and minutes. Longitude can be any number between 0 and 180, the inputted form for your location is 000 degrees 34 minutes west. Also check that you have put the latitude in correctly. This Latitude and longitude finder should help you. Type your location into the search box on the right hand side of the screen and the press go. The map will then centre on that location. The latitude and longitude of the centre of the map are shown below the map in degrees and minutes and in decimal format.

Peter

[Glider]

Also, the date format is entered as mm/dd/yy not dd/mm/yy!

[jasonp]

Thanks for the help.. Went out and tried again and got it roughly aligned :-)

It's weird though it won't accept the coordinates properly .. Will explain when I come back in .. Clear skies here so making the most

Cheers all :-)

[jasonp]

Umm that site gives a different lat long to what i think it is.. According to my GPS its -0.5686 and thats according to another site too.

The site Get Lat Lon - find the latitude and longitude of a point on a map is what we use at work a lot and has always been accurate.. weird.

[Cornelius Varley]

Thanks for the help.. Went out and tried again and got it roughly aligned :-)

It's weird though it won't accept the coordinates properly .. Will explain when I come back in .. Clear skies here so making the most

Cheers all :-)

I am not sure what you mean by that. I think all goto systems use the degree/minute format for latitude/longitude input.

Peter

[jasonp]

Put it this way .. Lets assume I am here

51.61695068850444, -0.619354248046875

000.61E 51.61N on the synscan would be correct ?

Well it would not let me put it in like that.. I had to use something like

000.61E 51.00N

Make sense ? I tried and tried just would not let me proceed to the next step.

Also once aligned, how do you re align again ?

Cheers

[Cornelius Varley]

Your theoretical coordinate works out as approximately 51' 37" N 000' 37" W. the synscan handset does not require the seconds. Map coordinates are are normally expressed in degrees, minutes and seconds. Longitude is a number between 0 and not higher than 180. Minutes and seconds can be no higher than 59. (watch Close Encounters of the Third Kind). The synscan handset will not accept a minutes value higher than 59. A negative longitude value as a decimal means that it is west of the Greenwich meridian and a negative latitude number is south of the equator.

Peter

[jasonp]

Right I now see my error

I got there in the end. Many thanks for persisting with me.

Cheers

Jason

[tonyd1]

I am having a very similar problem and sorry I still do not get it. My co ordiantes according to the lat/long finder are below. How would that be entered into my handset.

Latitude = 52.8478, Longitude = -1.4008

Lat = 52 degrees, 50.9 minutes North

Long = 1 degrees, 24.1 minutes West

Regards

Tony:hello2:

[jasonp]

As far as I now understand ( and someone correct me ) it would be..

52.51 N

001 24 W

[jasonp]

Another way too look at it is this..

Lat 52.8478

Divide 8478 by 166 = 51 (rounded down ) Therefore 52.51

Thats the calculation if you want to convert it from co ordinates that GPS/ Phones show etc.

Hope I have not confused you with that ( took me a while to understand it )

[tonyd1]

Great thanks for the help. I have enough info now to get the handset working,just for clarification,in the equation below-

Divide 8478 by 166 = 51 (rounded down ) Therefore 52.51.

where is the 166 number from.

Sorry to be a pain.

Regards

Tony

[jasonp]

I worked it out .. it was a random equation of 10000/60 as most lat longs I was getting was 51.XXXXX i.e. 10,000 then divided that by 60 ( minutes )

Like I said, dont take that as 100% as I only realised all this the other day after struggling to enger it into my synscan.

That equation on all examples I have used ( about 10 ) seem to work out perfectly every time

[Zanoni]

I've found a lot of useful info on this site and thought I would say a quick thanks! I started setting up an SW Exp 150p yesterday evening, but a combination of coordinates and clouds put and end to activities.

With your help, I'm on the right path

[Islander]

Plug your decimal co-ordinates into this site:

GPS Coordinate Converter, Maps and Info

It'll give you the correct degree minute seconds format and map it as well so that you can double check

[Guest]

Also, the date format is entered as mm/dd/yy not dd/mm/yy!

Good one Glider! I'm a former Yank and that one still gets me - I got all set up one night and selected my object only to see the front of the scope start travelling towards the floor har har!

Shame there aren't regional settings in the Synscan.

David

[Capricorn]

Do it as it should be:

Latitude = 52.8478, Longitude = -1.4008

That is 0.8478 of a degree, as a degree is 60 minutes that is simply 0.8478*60 minutes. (50.8 minutes)

Same for the 0.4008, that is 0.4008*60 (24 minutes).

Seems silly to divide by 166 when you can multiply by 60 much easier. Simple to do in your head really.

[m.tweedy]

Good one Glider! I'm a former Yank and that one still gets me - I got all set up one night and selected my object only to see the front of the scope start travelling towards the floor har har!

Shame there aren't regional settings in the Synscan.

David

There may not be regional settings but you can save your coordinates into an observing site if you use the same location. This saves having to enter them every time.

[Auntystatic]

If your map shows long/lat in decimal format you can use this site to convert.

My longitude is also a minus number (east of the meridian) -1.421185 which works out as E 1° 25' 16.2654"

Danielle

[Cornelius Varley]

If your map shows long/lat in decimal format you can use this site to convert.

My longitude is also a minus number (east of the meridian) -1.421185 which works out as E 1° 25' 16.2654"

Danielle

A minus value for the longitude is west of the meridian. Your longitude should be 001 25W

Peter

[Auntystatic]

Yep sorry my bad as they say, I was thinking of something completely different W 1° 25' 16.2654"

Dani