JHora Atlas (Santa Clara, CA)

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Dear Sandy,

 

I marked your mail for reply, but forgot to reply.

 

 

ACS atlas gives Santa Clara, CA near 121W16. All the packages you mentioned probably follow the same atlas.

 

The data used in JHora is taken from US Geological Survey's website.

 

JHora's main problem is that it does not have the history of timezone changes. It only has the current timezone information and the current daylight savings time conventions of USA. So JHora has problems related to daylight savings time calculation in USA for old dates. It has problems in daylight savings time calculations even for current dates in some countries outside USA. I am working on all the daylight savings time related problems and will be releasing a better JHora in October.

 

However, I don't think JHora has any problems related to longitudes and latitudes. Those should be fine.

 

For example, please go to US Gazatteer's official government website at

 

http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer

 

and search for "Santa Clara, CA". You will get

 

http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer?city=Santa+Clara & state=CA & zip=

 

You will get the co-ordinates of the main city center as 37.36500 N, 121.96670 W.

 

Note that the longitude is 121.96670, i.e. 121 deg 58 min West. This is closer to what JHora gives. In fact, if you go to USGS website and download the data, you will see that JHora matches the data. The co-ordinates given by JHora are for the city center, as given by USGS. The longitude given by other softwares falls within the Santa Clara county, but outside the main city (as per US Geological Survey and also US Gazetteer).

 

May Jupiter's light shine on us,

Narasimha

 

> Hare Rama Krishna> Dear Group,> > Can someone (maybe from Santa Clara) please verify the correct coordinates> for Santa Clara, California? (USA)> > JHora 5 gives 121W57.15, 37N21.15> > Parashara's Light 6 gives 121W16.03, 37N20.51> > Goravani Jyotish 2.26 gives 121W15, 37N20> > While Shri Jyoti Star and Solar Fire 5 both give 121W15, 37N20.51> > Will the correct Santa Clara coordinates please stand up? JHora 5 varies> quite a bit from the other software programs...I'm inclined to go with the> SJS and SF5...Thanks... if anyone can verify.> > ~Namaste~> Sandy Crowther> http://www.jupitersweb.com