alien skies reprise
| From: | michael poxon <m.poxon@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 15, 2002, 19:57 |
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Just a few notes to anyone who may be using "Alien Skies". You may have found, if
you are drawing the sky for a star other than the one supplied, that things may
not be turning out right. This is due to the limitations of MSWorks as distinct
from the spreadsheet that the thing was originally written in (the old but
really excellent WordPerfect Works Spreadsheet). If you take the following
steps, everything will turn out right again.
1) Make the hidden columns visible.
2) Copy and paste these formulae into:
cell W4:
=$r*cos($d)*cos($a)
cell X4:
=$r*cos($d)*sin($a)
cell Y4:
=$r*sin($d)
Then copy these formulae down as far as the end of the spreadsheet, saving this new version.
The old values in these cells were for Castor only, but inserting these formulae
will ensure that any updated values are calculated properly. Good luck!
Mike