hi don1reed,
if you hover with your mouse over the "ship time" 16:00 in lower right screen you get an additional local time reading - does the local time also show 16:00?
edit (my theory):
i could bet it shows you 17:00, an indicator that you started the mission in timezone +1.
So if local time and ship time is different, the ship time reading (16:00) is NOT the real GMT. To get the real GMT for your almanac prog please subtract the time difference (local - ship time) from the displayed ship time.
In your example: (1700 local - 1600 ship) = +1h. GMT = 1600 - (+1h) = 1500
In your picture in SH3 you are seeing the sun at 15:00 GMT.
edit again:
Just saw your answer below. I refrain from my theory. I'll check this later...
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Originally Posted by don1reed
 woops...typo. Meant East of England.  tnx Georg.
And tnx, van, for the explanation. I'll have to fumble around with it abit to get my sea-legs adjusted.
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Georg, the date & time is correct as my pic shows; however, my Windows/print screen function peeled away some of the sun-glare and shows the Sun's position in the middle of the screen (roughly) where I believe, van, is referring with his pic. As you can see, the "Navigator's Star Finder" shows Hc for the Sun as 20° 21.0'. The closest I could get to that was about 29°...also show on my pic. 9° off (540nm) is not too good.
The non-linearity of the screen is (no pun intended) throwing me a curve. |