Download page for position data

You may want to download a file containing all submitted results.

mercurypositions.csv

The file format is CSV, semicolon as divider, Format: Name;Location;r in RE;latitude in deg;longitude in deg;ut;x'Mercury;y'Mercury;

The downloaded data may be copied into an evaluation work sheet allowing to derive the distance to the Sun from two simultaneously measured positions.
In that sheet the procedure is illustrated with two positions calculated for Hannover, Germany, and Windhoek, Namibia, with the help of the (Windows-) program eclipses.
Editor: Udo Backhaus
  last update: 19.01.2018