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"It is quite certain, in particular, that I have always been insane." ~ Aleister Crowley

"Save us all from arrogant men/And all the causes they're for/I won't be righteous again/I'm not that sure any more." ~ Shades of Grey, Billy Joel

If anyone plans on working with highly elliptical orbits (eccentricity over 0.3), they're going to have to find me some C++ code to solve Kepler's equation for those cases. I'm currently running the (C?) code from , which runs the < .3 case fine but sulks at everything else. This may well be because it's C rather than C++, or some other relatively simple matter that I would know about if I actually bothered to study programming.

Aside from that things are going well, at least in that I should have some useful heat data output soonish.

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"Save us all from arrogant men/And all the causes they're for/I won't be righteous again/I'm not that sure any more." ~ Shades of Grey, Billy Joel

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"It is quite certain, in particular, that I have always been insane." ~ Aleister Crowley

"Save us all from arrogant men/And all the causes they're for/I won't be righteous again/I'm not that sure any more." ~ Shades of Grey, Billy Joel

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I've put up a first-draft of the temperatures chapter of my forthcoming(? hahaha, er I hope.) webbook on conworlding.
The link is right .

Please don't laugh at me too hard. I hope someday to be a n00b!

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Heat (or rather energy) oddity: around the solstices, an odd phenomenon happens at the pole pointing towards the sun - according to my pretty pictures, the latitude equal to the axial incline of the planet experiences an optimum balance of day length and sun angle and actually gets more energy per day than the latitudes directly below and above it.

Can anyone confirm that this is a real phenomenon, or has something gone wrong with my maths?

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"Save us all from arrogant men/And all the causes they're for/I won't be righteous again/I'm not that sure any more." ~ Shades of Grey, Billy Joel

Yes - these latitudes are the tropics (of Cancer and Capricorn, on Earth).

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"Save us all from arrogant men/And all the causes they're for/I won't be righteous again/I'm not that sure any more." ~ Shades of Grey, Billy Joel

I remember reading... somewhere(which I can't find in my current state)... that, on planets with an axial inclination in excess of 45º, the annual mean insolation is greatest at the poles. I have yet to figure out the calculations for annual mean of insolation, so I don't know.

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I think I've got things fixed now. Still a little suspicious of my day lengths, but at least I'm not getting odd blips and ridges.

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"It is quite certain, in particular, that I have always been insane." ~ Aleister Crowley

"Save us all from arrogant men/And all the causes they're for/I won't be righteous again/I'm not that sure any more." ~ Shades of Grey, Billy Joel

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"It is quite certain, in particular, that I have always been insane." ~ Aleister Crowley

"Save us all from arrogant men/And all the causes they're for/I won't be righteous again/I'm not that sure any more." ~ Shades of Grey, Billy Joel

Hm. I'll leave this to the experts...
but... out of interest, will we be able to use this for planets that are tidally locked, or that have ridiculously long days?

Anyways, I'm looking forward to seeing a usable version

Huhh.

You're getting what I'd instinctively expect. At 90º inclination, the whole world gets its day in the Sun.

Considering it further, I think the peak insolation was what I was reading about.

Hopefully my brain will function soon.

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"It is quite certain, in particular, that I have always been insane." ~ Aleister Crowley

"Save us all from arrogant men/And all the causes they're for/I won't be righteous again/I'm not that sure any more." ~ Shades of Grey, Billy Joel

Incidentally, because of refraction and the fact that if the sun's partly over the horizon it counts as daytime, the equator of a planet with 90º axial tilt would get a 24-hour-long day at both solstices.

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MI DRALAS, KHARULE MEVO STANI?!

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"It is quite certain, in particular, that I have always been insane." ~ Aleister Crowley

"Save us all from arrogant men/And all the causes they're for/I won't be righteous again/I'm not that sure any more." ~ Shades of Grey, Billy Joel

Tidal locking is one special case that would probably be worth handling.

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Well, things have passed an important threshold: I am now getting honest to goodness temperatures out.



This shows the theoretical rise in temperature that would caused by the incoming energy for one day around the (NH) winter. You can see how the oceans heat slower than the land. There are two more factors I need for a proper first pass* temperature map - the amount of heat the same areas would be losing, and a base temperature to modify.


*Calculating surface temperature relies (amongst other things) on cloud cover. Calculating cloud cover relies on air motion and moisture capacity. Which is calculated from temperature. Climate modeling is full of this kind of thing.

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"It is quite certain, in particular, that I have always been insane." ~ Aleister Crowley

"Save us all from arrogant men/And all the causes they're for/I won't be righteous again/I'm not that sure any more." ~ Shades of Grey, Billy Joel