I am working with event?(7852) Itsukushima occults UCAC4 339-105616 occurring on 12 May, 06:25:59.
I had selected a mobile location from which to observe it, but it turns out that I had to change locations. This isn't anything new for me. To facilitate the change, I cancelled all stations for the event and then selected a new location using "Add to my events". This new location is closer to the center line than the original location.
After adding the event, OW refreshes and displays The station locations on the pink/blue overhead view.
When I use the "Save 'Google earth' kml file" feature, the following is displayed in Google Earth.
In OW, the big black bar is my Home location which looks correct on the pink/blue chart, near the southern, but the new location of the mobile site is nowhere close to where it is suppose to be. the kml rendering shows the location to be just south of center line, but the pink/blue chart in OW shows it well to the north of the center line.
I triple checked the Long/Lat/Elev in both the placemark in Google Earth and the site coordinates in OW and they match (OW stores the long/lat only to 5 decimal places whereas Google Earth store them to 6).
I restarted OW and the behavior is the same.
I then clicked on "Show online map with stations" and this is what is displayed.
My site is in the correct location, but the pink/blue, as it is in OW doesn't place my site in the correct place.?
Is this part of the new feature of OWC? the "white line seems to be match? the location where the pink/blue (i don't know what this is called) shows it.
So many questions.
Do I have to consider the White line when attempting to decide on where to observe?
The save kml feature of OW doesn't show the white line. will OW have that feature soon?
I have updated all my OW sites to include the elevation from Google Earth.
The elevation corrections are a good thing, but everything needs to be synced in order to make event planning more accurate.
Vince
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V Sempronio