[APBeta] East-West

Paul Rodman paul at ilanga.com
Mon Sep 7 07:32:50 PDT 2009


On Sep 6, 2009, at 4:16 PM, Allan Gould wrote:

> I've just noticed that the East and West designations for the alt  
> and az
> for an object appear to be reversed in the latest version of
> Astroplanner. Its definitely different from version 1.6.1 noticed it
> with NGC253 "rising in the West".

Are you referring to the Az part of the Alt/Az indicator above the  
objects list?

That was changed recently to allow for flipping the E/W and N/S  
directions via a right-click menu (before it just reflected the Sky  
chart).

A screen-shot might help clear things up.

Paul R.




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