- #HOW TO USE NEW GOOGLE EARTH 2017 DRAW SOFTWARE#
- #HOW TO USE NEW GOOGLE EARTH 2017 DRAW CODE#
- #HOW TO USE NEW GOOGLE EARTH 2017 DRAW WINDOWS#
Initial view once you have done a "File -> Open".
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Google Earth screenshot showing the track World Atlas of Solar Eclipse Paths (Fred Espenak, NASA/GFSC) The Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses Database will give you access to every eclipses over the -1999 to +3000 period. These innovative maps were the first to reach the market over a decade ago and have since constantly evolved to bring more added value to the visitors. Please consider making a donation to support my work and show your appreciation. You can then overlay meteorological data files with the eclipse path or have a look at the Google Earth Gallery. Instead, please provide this Web page address to anyone wishing to use the Google Earth files and ask me if you have any special needs. Alter or remove any copyright notice or proprietary legend contained in is forbidden. Permission to distribute, sell, license, copy or reproduce these files isn’t granted. These images include material copyrighted by Space Imaging LLC. The first one is a plain Google Earth file the symbol, being the second one, is a self-contained Google Earth file with new high resolution satellite image overlays. When a link is followed by this symbol, it means you have two different files. The Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses Database will give you access to every eclipses over the -1999 to +3000 period and will let you generate those files on your own. However, by clicking on the framed cross-hair cursor always located at the center of the view, you will obtain the local circumstances at that location (have a look at this sample). The "dynamic local circumstances predictions at the click’s location", a feature available with my interactive Google maps, can’t be implemented as is because the Google Earth client application provides no means of getting the current pointer position. After having been nine years online, the content of those files has been updated mid-2013 and synchronized with the one produced by my " Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses" tool. The umbral or antumbral northern and southern limits of a solar eclipse are plotted in pink while the central line is blue.
#HOW TO USE NEW GOOGLE EARTH 2017 DRAW WINDOWS#
The Google Earth (available for MacOS X, Windows and Linux) files, will draw the solar eclipses paths and limits across the Earth’s surface (using 5MCSE Besselian elements from Fred Espenak and Jean Meeus, NASA/GSFC). Solar Eclipses > Google Earth Files (kmz) You cannot browse this web page and site correctly before activating Javascript in the browser prefs Using the tool below for the location in California shown above, we got 11:06 pm UTC, and a height of 14 m for the street light.Javascript isn’t activated or your browser does not support Javascript Unfortunately, we do not know of an easy way to convert time to the correct time zone based on latitude and longitude.
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Upload the file below, and it should show a table listing the approximate time the image was taken in UTC and the estimated height of the object. Now save the path, or a collection of such paths, as a KML file. Make sure you selected the appropriate date on the time bar first. This stores the date from the historical imagery time bar in the path.
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Next, right-click on the path and select ‘Snapshot View’. Use only two points in the path as only the first two points are used by the code. Draw a path in Google Earth from the base of an object to the end of its shadow.
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To use it, first switch to ‘historical imagery’ and find an appropriate image and some shadows.
#HOW TO USE NEW GOOGLE EARTH 2017 DRAW CODE#
The code isn’t ideal as it converts time to the sun’s angle above the horizon and azimuth whereas we need the reverse, so we run it for each minute of the day and find the closest match. We found some open source code here that was created for the ‘’ website. As a bonus, the shadow length can tell you the height of the object. We thought it would be fun to write a tool to calculate time based on shadow angle. (We didn’t check that for daylight savings time complications). So the above image was captured at about 1:15 am CAT (UTC +2) which is 11:15 pm UTC or 4:15 pm in California (where the image was captured). Note that the time on the ‘time’ toolbar appears to be shown in the computer’s ‘local time’. However, Google Earth does not allow you to look upwards except in the Flight Simulator, so if the sun is too high in the sky you cannot get it in the view. Google Earth has the option to show the sun, and if you are lucky, you can adjust the time until the sun lines up with a shadow. So, we wondered how easy it would be to tell the time based on shadows in the imagery.
#HOW TO USE NEW GOOGLE EARTH 2017 DRAW SOFTWARE#
We assume that Google’s equivalent software for Google Earth has the same limitation. We noticed in the Google Earth Enterprise documentation that ‘Acquisition date’ only accepts a date and not a time. Have you ever wondered what time a particular image was captured? Google Earth does not show times, only dates.