I have noticed that sometimes the NewSextant mod thinks a body is in a different spot than it appears to be. Typically for a noon latitude sight I don’t see UT show up after putting the object in. If I drop down a degree or so, sure enough, there it is. Now of course I don’t need time for a latitude sight, but it’s just odd. I have run into the same trying to shoot some stars, not very many, but sometimes I run into an issue where UT doesn’t show.
Regarding the sun, when I am doing a running fix for example, if I take, say, and afternoon sun line, for which I get UT displayed, when I use real almanac declination I get very close. However, when I use real declinations for a noon latitude sight (where UT doesn’t show up as mentioned before), I get very close using Alpheratz’s sun declinations. So there is definitely some disconnect perhaps in NewSextant. Not a big deal, because we can use “two sets of books”. But definitely something to investigate.
In short, if I can see UT show up in the display, I get very close using real declinations, but if UT doesn’t show, Alpheratz’s data seems to be closer. I have had a friend test this as well in parallel.
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